Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide Paperback - 2004
by Alexander Laban Hinton; Foreword by Robert Jay Lifton
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"Hinton has traveled to the heart and soul of the Cambodian people."--Youk Chhang, Director, Documentation Center of Cambodia
"In Why Did They Kill?, Hinton explores the cultural roots of Khmer Rouge genocidal behavior. Hinton brings extensive fieldwork, wide reading and a compassionate turn of mind to bear on the awful question posed by the title. In the process, he takes us closer to the darkness at the heart of the Khmer Rouge and the darkness inside ourselves. This is a fearless, important and deeply resonant book."--David Chandler, author of Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison
"Alex Hinton's bold, unflinching, and ethnographically rich account of the dialectics of genocide is an essential contribution to the anthropology of evil."--Nancy Scheper-Hughes, author of Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
"Nowhere else has the bodily, literally visceral, dimension of genocide been so well illustrated. Hinton's study contributes greatly to efforts, which must be continuous for all of us, to combat genocidal forces everywhere."--Robert Jay Lifton, author of The Nazi Doctors and Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World
"A riveting analysis of the Cambodian genocide. Using detailed materials and careful arguments, Hinton interweaves the ideological constructions, the cultural dimensions, the mechanisms that manufactured difference and dissolved humanity, and the subjective experiences and meaning-making that engaged the perpetrators, showing how they worked together to make up the process. A remarkable achievement!"--Fredrik Barth, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University/University of Oslo
"Alex Hinton provides an analysis of the Cambodian genocide that for the first time explains the extreme cruelty of the Khmer Rouge regime as a manifestation of deep structures in Cambodian culture. Hinton's probing field research is in the best tradition of Clifford Geertz, Victor Turner, and the finest cultural anthropologists."--Gregory Stanton, President, Genocide Watch
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- Title Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide
- Author Alexander Laban Hinton; Foreword by Robert Jay Lifton
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1St Edition
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Date 2004-12-06
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520241794 / 0520241797
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.94 x 6.44 x 0.94 in (22.71 x 16.36 x 2.39 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Political atrocities - Cambodia, Cambodia - Politics and government -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004009189
- Dewey Decimal Code 959.604
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- Choice, 06/01/2005, Page 1877
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