What happens to people and the societies in which they live after
genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the
individual and collective levels, and how do these memories
intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt
to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past? In this important
volume, leading anthropologists consider such questions about the
relationship of genocide, truth, memory, and representation in the
Balkans, East Timor, Germany, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nigeria,
Rwanda, Sudan, and other locales.
Specialists on the societies about which they write, these
anthropologists draw on ethnographic research to provide
on-the-ground analyses of communities in the wake of mass
brutality. They investigate how mass violence is described or
remembered, and how those representations are altered by the
attempts of others, from NGOs to governments, to assert "the truth"
about outbreaks of violence. One contributor questions the
neutrality of an international group monitoring violence in Sudan
and the assumption that such groups are, at worst, benign. Another
examines the consequences of how events, victims, and perpetrators
are portrayed by the Rwandan government during the annual
commemoration of that country's genocide in 1994. Still another
explores the silence around the deaths of between eighty and one
hundred thousand people on Bali during Indonesia's state-sponsored
anticommunist violence of 1965-1966, a genocidal period that until
recently was rarely referenced in tourist guidebooks,
anthropological studies on Bali, or even among the Balinese
themselves. Other contributors consider issues of political
identity and legitimacy, coping, the media, and "ethnic cleansing."
"Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation" reveals the major
contribution that cultural anthropologists can make to the study of
genocide.
"Contributors." Pamela Ballinger, Jennie E. Burnet, Conerly
Casey, Elizabeth Drexler, Leslie Dwyer, Alexander Laban Hinton,
Sharon E. Hutchinson, Uli Linke, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Antonius C.
G. M. Robben, Debra Rodman, Victoria Sanford
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