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“While the volume intends to make a special contribution to
anthropology, a wide range of readers will find it fascinating
and inful, including this political scientist.” - Elisabeth
King, Human Rights & Human Welfare
“Overall, this book is a useful and equally fascinating read for
scholars and students of genocide studies, as well as for those
who are otherwise interested in the subject matter. The coherent
organization of the chapters, including cross-references between
essays, makes it a strong and concise contribution.” - Maria
Irchenhauser, H-Net Reviews
“This is an extraordinary book, anthropology at its best, drawing
on the extreme to enlighten more common features of memory,
representation, and the variability of truth. . . . This
well-constructed book will be of interest to many, especially to
all social anthropologists who try to grasp the complex
intertwining of imagination, action, and comprehension and their
individual and societal nexus that the last chapter hints at.
Theoretical distance may help them cope with, at times, painful
or troubling empathy.” - Danielle de Lame, American Ethnologist
“A timely and relevant collection of essays interrogating
genocide’s relationship to the Truth/Memory/Representation
triumvirate, this anthology weaves together new and old themes in
Genocide Studies while paying attention to underserved genocidal
incidents and offering new ins on well-covered events. This
makes it a worthy read for an audience with a wide-range of
backgrounds and interests.” - Christina M. Morus, Journal for
Peace and Justice Studies
“Genocide: Truth, Memory and Representation includes case studies
and analyses about individuals worldwide who continue to live in
communities and cope in their everyday lives with the aftermath
of genocide and other mass violence. And, for the anthropologists
who arrive at these places, this volume reveals their
difficulties of trying to hear testimony and analyze past and
present truths and memories. The essays reveal how complicated,
risky but much needed such undertakings are.” - Joyce Apsel,
Human Rights Review
“Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation brings the
scholarship on genocide to a new level. The editors have
assembled a superb group of anthropologists who demonstrate that
innovative research and deep, probing questions can also be
accompanied by great empathy for victims. Every chapter inspires
a rethinking of received categories without ever losing of
the immense, tragic dimension of genocide.”—Eric D. Weitz, author
of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation
“This volume brings rich historical and contemporary ethnographic
material to bear on the urgent task of writing against violence
and terror. The volume benefits greatly from the long-term
professional commitments of anthropologists working in settings
embroiled in violence and engaging with peoples suffering the
ongoing sequelae and cycles of genocidal terror.”—Philippe
Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El
Barrio and co-editor of Violence in War and Peace
“Genocide: Truth, Memory and Representation includes case studies
and analyses about individuals worldwide who continue to live in
communities and cope in their everyday lives with the aftermath
of genocide and other mass violence. And, for the anthropologists
who arrive at these places, this volume reveals their
difficulties of trying to hear testimony and analyze past and
present truths and memories. The essays reveal how complicated,
risky but much needed such undertakings are.” (Joyce Apsel Human
Rights Review)
“A timely and relevant collection of essays interrogating
genocide’s relationship to the Truth/Memory/Representation
triumvirate, this anthology weaves together new and old themes in
Genocide Studies while paying attention to underserved genocidal
incidents and offering new ins on well-covered events. This
makes it a worthy read for an audience with a wide-range of
backgrounds and interests.” (Christina M. Morus Journal for Peace
and Justice Studies)
“Overall, this book is a useful and equally fascinating read for
scholars and students of genocide studies, as well as for those
who are otherwise interested in the subject matter. The coherent
organization of the chapters, including cross-references between
essays, makes it a strong and concise contribution.” (Maria
Irchenhauser H-Net Reviews)
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"This volume brings rich historical and contemporary
ethnographic material to bear on the urgent task of writing
against violence and terror. The volume benefits greatly from the
long-term professional commitments of anthropologists working in
settings embroiled in violence and engaging with peoples
suffering the ongoing sequelae and cycles of genocidal
terror."--Philippe Bourgois, author of "In Search of Respect:
Selling Crack in El Barrio" and co-editor of "Violence in War and
Peace"
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