Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide

by Alexander Laban Hinton, Kenneth Roth (Foreword)

Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide takes place, anthropologists are uniquely positioned to explain how and why this mass annihilation occurs and the types of devastation genocide causes. This ground breaking book, the first collection of original essays on genocide to be published in anthropology, explores a wide range of cases, including Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

Genres: Anthropology, History, Sociology, Nonfiction, War, Politics, Essays

420 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Alexander Hinton serves as the Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Professor in the Anthropology and Global Affairs Departments at Rutgers University, Newark.

Reviews

[Johann Manstein · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent demonstration of how social context adapts genocide. Rwanda is a fantastic example of this.