"Fresh, useful, and engaging. This timely book reflects new
research and important critical perspectives on the role of social
science and the response of anthropology to human
suffering."--Richard Pierre Claude, Founding Editor of "Human
Rights Quarterly
"Many peoples of the world, including the Mayans in Guatemala,
have been devastated and destroyed by genocide. Over many years
these horrors remained only in the hearts and memory of the
victims. The testimonies of the survivors who had the courage to
denounce these crimes are making a contribution to scientific
research. In "Annihilating Difference, anthropologists grapple with
an urgent public issue, taking new points of view that could help
understand the magnitude of past atrocities and develop strategies
to prevent future massacres in the heart of humanity."--Rigoberta
Menchu Tum, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
"This volume--a collection of writings on genocide from the
perspective of anthropology-seeks a deeper understanding of our
era's most heinous crime. It asks not only what happened but why it
happened. It seeks not simply to describe but to explain. And in
offering an explanation of this horrendous social malady, it points
the direction for a possible cure."--Kenneth Roth, Executive
Director, Human Rights Watch, from the Foreword
"This volume ranges far and wide across centuries and cultures
to present fascinating perspectives on the phenomenon of genocide.
It is a new venture for anthropologists, whose insights will be
useful to us all and who connect their scholarship to profound
moral concerns."--Howard Zinn, author of "You Can't Be Neutral on a
Moving Train
""Annihilating Difference is an anthropologicalcollection that
warrants the attention of non-anthropologists. It simultaneously
adds to the growing body of knowledge about genocide and provides a
revealing glimpse into what anthropologists are studying and how
they are studying it."--Donald L. Horowitz, author of "The Deadly
Ethnic Riot
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