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Abu Lughod

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Lila

1991

Writing against Culture

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Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present

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Fox

Richard G.

, ed. Pp.

37

–

62

.

Santa Fe

:

School of American Research Press

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Aijmer

,

Göran

, and

Abbink

Jon

eds.

2000

Meanings of Violence: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

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Oxford

:

Berg

.

Anderson

,

Benedict

1991

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism

. Rev. 2nd edition.

New York

:

Verso

.

Appadurai

,

Arjun

1996

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

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Minneapolis

:

University of Minnesota Press

.

Asad

,

Talal

, ed.

1973

Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter

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London

:

Ithaca

.

Besteman

,

Catherine

, ed.

2002

Violence: A Reader

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New York

:

Palgrave Macmillan

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Castoriadis

,

Cornelius

1987

The Imaginary Institution of Society. Kathleen Blamey, trans

.

Cambridge

:

MIT Press

.

Chalk

,

Frank

, and

Jonassohn

Kurt

1990

The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies

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New Haven

:

Yale University Press

.

Charny

,

Israel W.

, ed.

1999

Encyclopedia of Genocide

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2

vols.

Santa Barbara, CA

:

ABC-CLIO

.

Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH)

.

1999

Guatemala: Memoria del silencio

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12

volumes.

Guatemala City

:

CEH

.

D'Andrade

,

Roy

1995

Moral Models in Anthropology

.

Current Anthropology

36

:(

3

)

399

–

408

.

Daniel

,

E. Valentine

1996

Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropology of Violence

.

Princeton

:

Princeton University Press

.

Das

,

Veena

,

Kleinman

Arthur

,

Lock

Margaret

,

Ramphele

Mamphela

, and

Reynolds

Pamela

, eds.

2001

Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

Das

,

Veena

,

Kleinman

Arthur

,

Ramphele

Mamphela

, and

Reynolds

Pamela

, eds.

2000

Violence and Subjectivity

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

Diner

,

Dan

2000

Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust

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Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

Dirks

,

Nicholas B.

,

Eley

Geoff

, and

Ortner

Sherry B.

, eds.

1994

Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory

.

Princeton

:

Princeton University Press

.

Dwyer

,

Kevin

1982

Moroccan Dialogues

.

Baltimore

:

Johns Hopkins University Press

.

Fawthrop

,

Tom

, and

Jarvis

Helen

2004

Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

.

Ann Arbor, MI

:

Pluto

.

Fein

,

Helen

1990

Genocide: A Sociological Perspective

.

Current Sociology

38

(

1

):

v

–

126

.

Feldman

,

Allen

1991

Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland

.

Chicago

:

University of Chicago Press

.

Ferguson

,

R. Brian

, ed.

2003

The State, Identity, and Violence: Political Disintegration in the Post–Cold War World

.

New York

:

Routledge

.

Friedlander

,

Saul

, ed.

1992

Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the Final Solution

.

Cambridge

:

Harvard University Press

.

Goankar

,

Dilip Parameshwar

2002

Toward New Imaginaries: An Introduction

.

Public Culture

14

:(

1

)

1

–

9

.

Hartman

,

Geoffrey H.

, ed.

1994

Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory

.

Oxford

:

Blackwell

.

Hayner

,

Priscilla B.

1994

Fifteen Truth Commissions, 1974–1994: A Comparative Study

.

Human Rights Quarterly

16

:

597

–

655

.

Hayner

,

Priscilla B.

2002

Unspeakable Truths: Facing the Challenge of Truth Commissions

.

New York

:

Routledge

.

Hinton

,

Alexander Laban

2005

Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

Hinton

,

Alexander Laban

2008

Truth, Representation and the Politics of Memory after Genocide

. In

People of Virtue: Reconfiguring Religion, Power and Morality in Cambodia Today

.

Copenhagen

:

NIAS Press

.

Hinton

,

Alexander Laban

, ed.

2002a

Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

Hinton

,

Alexander Laban

, ed.

2002b

Genocide: An Anthropological Reader

.

Malden, MA

:

Blackwell

.

Kleinman

,

Arthur

,

Das

Veena

, and

Lock

Margaret

, eds.

1997

Social Suffering

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

Kuper

,

Leo

1981

Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century

.

New Haven

:

Yale University Press

.

LaCapra

,

Dominick

1998

History and Memory after Auschwitz

.

Ithaca

:

Cornell University Press

.

Lemkin

,

Raphaël

1944

Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress

.

Washington

:

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law

.

Levi

,

Neil

, and

Rothberg

Michael

, eds.

2003

The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings

.

New Brunswick, NJ

:

Rutgers University Press

.

Levi

,

Primo

1989

The Drowned and the Saved

.

New York

:

Vintage

.

Malkki

,

Liisa H.

1995

Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania

.

Chicago

:

University of Chicago Press

.

Miller

,

Henry

1961 [1934]

Tropic of Cancer

.

New York

:

Grove

.

Nagengast

,

Carole

1994

Violence, Terror, and the Crisis of the State

.

Annual Review of Anthropology

23

:

109

–

136

.

Nelson

,

Diane

2003

The More You Kill the More You Will Live: The Maya, "Race," and Biopolitical Hopes for Peace in Guatemala

. In

Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference

.

Moore

Donald S.

,

Kosek

Jake

, and

Pandian

Anand

, eds. Pp.

122

–

146

.

Durham, NC

:

Duke University Press

.

Nordstrom

,

Carolyn

, and

Robben

Antonius C. G. M.

, eds.

1995

Fieldwork under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

O'Neill

,

Kevin Lewis

2005

Writing Guatemala's Genocide: Christianity and Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

.

Journal for Genocide Research

7

:(

3

)

310

–

331

.

Padilla

,

Herberto

1993

History

. In

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness

.

Forché

C.

, ed. P.

602

.

New York

:

Norton

.

Postone

,

Moishe

, and

Santner

Eric

, eds.

2003

Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century

.

Chicago

:

University of Chicago Press

.

Proyecto Interdiocesano de Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (REMHI)

.

1998

Guatemala: Nunca más

.

4

vols.

Guatemala City

:

Oficina de Derechos Humanos Arzobispado de Guatemala

.

Recovery of Historical Memory Project (REMHI)

.

1999

Guatemala: Never Again

.

Siebentritt

Gretta Tovar

, trans.

New York

:

Orbis

.

Riches

,

David

1986

The Phenomenon of Violence

. In

The Anthropology of Violence

.

Riches

David

, ed. Pp.

1

–

27

.

Oxford

:

Blackwell

.

Rosaldo

,

Renato

1989

Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis

.

Boston

:

Beacon

.

Sanford

,

Victoria

2003

Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala

.

New York

:

Palgrave Macmillan

.

Santayana

,

George

1944

Persons and Places

.

New York

:

Scribner

.

Scheper-Hughes

,

Nancy

, and

Bourgois

Philippe

, eds.

2004

Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology

.

Malden, MA

:

Blackwell

.

Scheper-Hughes

,

Nancy

, and

Lock

Margaret

Persons and Places

1985

Speaking "Truth" to Illness: Metaphors, Reifications, and a Pedagogy for Patients

.

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

17

:(

5

)

137

–

140

.

Schmidt

,

Bettina E.

, and

Schröder

Ingo W.

, eds.

2001

Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

.

New York

:

Routledge

.

Sluka

,

Jeffrey A.

, ed.

2000

Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror

.

Philadelphia

:

University of Pennsylvania Press

.

Stewart

,

Pamela J.

, and

Strathern

Andrew

2002

Violence: Theory and Ethnography

.

New York

:

Continuum

.

Strathern

,

Andrew

,

Stewart

,

Pamela J.

, and

Whitehead

Neil L.

, eds.

2006

Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable

.

London

:

Pluto

.

Taussig

,

Michael

1984

Culture of Terror, Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture

.

Comparative Studies in Society and History

26

:(

3

)

467

–

497

.

Taussig

,

Michael

1987

Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing

.

Chicago

:

University of Chicago Press

.

Totten

,

Samuel

,

Parsons

William S.

, and

Charny

Israel W.

, eds.

1997

Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views

.

New York

:

Garland

.

Tyler

,

Stephen

1986

Post-Modern Ethnography

. In

Writing Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

.

Clifford

James

and

Marcus

George E.

, eds. Pp.

122

–

140

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

White

,

Geoffrey M.

2005

Emotive Institutions

. In

A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change

.

Casey

Conerly

and

Edgerton

Robert B.

, eds. Pp.

241

–

254

.

Malden, MA

:

Blackwell

.

Whitehead

,

Alfred North

1954

Dialogues

.

Boston

:

Little, Brown

.

Whitehead

,

Neil L.

, ed.

2004

Violence

.

Santa Fe

:

School of American Research Press

.

Young

,

James Edward

1993

The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning

.

New Haven

:

Yale University Press

.

Zulaika

,

Joseba

, and

Douglass

William A.

1996

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.

New York

:

Routledge

.

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The Cultures and Practice of Violence

Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation

Edited by

Alexander Laban Hinton;

Alexander Laban Hinton is Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide and editor of Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide.

Kevin Lewis O'Neill is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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Kevin Lewis O'Neill

Alexander Laban Hinton is Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide and editor of Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide.

Kevin Lewis O'Neill is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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References

Abu Lughod

,

Lila

1991

Writing against Culture

. In

Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present

.

Fox

Richard G.

, ed. Pp.

37

–

62

.

Santa Fe

:

School of American Research Press

.

Aijmer

,

Göran

, and

Abbink

Jon

eds.

2000

Meanings of Violence: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

.

Oxford

:

Berg

.

Anderson

,

Benedict

1991

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism

. Rev. 2nd edition.

New York

:

Verso

.

Appadurai

,

Arjun

1996

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

.

Minneapolis

:

University of Minnesota Press

.

Asad

,

Talal

, ed.

1973

Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter

.

London

:

Ithaca

.

Besteman

,

Catherine

, ed.

2002

Violence: A Reader

.

New York

:

Palgrave Macmillan

.

Castoriadis

,

Cornelius

1987

The Imaginary Institution of Society. Kathleen Blamey, trans

.

Cambridge

:

MIT Press

.

Chalk

,

Frank

, and

Jonassohn

Kurt

1990

The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies

.

New Haven

:

Yale University Press

.

Charny

,

Israel W.

, ed.

1999

Encyclopedia of Genocide

.

2

vols.

Santa Barbara, CA

:

ABC-CLIO

.

Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH)

.

1999

Guatemala: Memoria del silencio

.

12

volumes.

Guatemala City

:

CEH

.

D'Andrade

,

Roy

1995

Moral Models in Anthropology

.

Current Anthropology

36

:(

3

)

399

–

408

.

Daniel

,

E. Valentine

1996

Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropology of Violence

.

Princeton

:

Princeton University Press

.

Das

,

Veena

,

Kleinman

Arthur

,

Lock

Margaret

,

Ramphele

Mamphela

, and

Reynolds

Pamela

, eds.

2001

Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

Das

,

Veena

,

Kleinman

Arthur

,

Ramphele

Mamphela

, and

Reynolds

Pamela

, eds.

2000

Violence and Subjectivity

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

Diner

,

Dan

2000

Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

Dirks

,

Nicholas B.

,

Eley

Geoff

, and

Ortner

Sherry B.

, eds.

1994

Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory

.

Princeton

:

Princeton University Press

.

Dwyer

,

Kevin

1982

Moroccan Dialogues

.

Baltimore

:

Johns Hopkins University Press

.

Fawthrop

,

Tom

, and

Jarvis

Helen

2004

Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

.

Ann Arbor, MI

:

Pluto

.

Fein

,

Helen

1990

Genocide: A Sociological Perspective

.

Current Sociology

38

(

1

):

v

–

126

.

Feldman

,

Allen

1991

Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland

.

Chicago

:

University of Chicago Press

.

Ferguson

,

R. Brian

, ed.

2003

The State, Identity, and Violence: Political Disintegration in the Post–Cold War World

.

New York

:

Routledge

.

Friedlander

,

Saul

, ed.

1992

Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the Final Solution

.

Cambridge

:

Harvard University Press

.

Goankar

,

Dilip Parameshwar

2002

Toward New Imaginaries: An Introduction

.

Public Culture

14

:(

1

)

1

–

9

.

Hartman

,

Geoffrey H.

, ed.

1994

Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory

.

Oxford

:

Blackwell

.

Hayner

,

Priscilla B.

1994

Fifteen Truth Commissions, 1974–1994: A Comparative Study

.

Human Rights Quarterly

16

:

597

–

655

.

Hayner

,

Priscilla B.

2002

Unspeakable Truths: Facing the Challenge of Truth Commissions

.

New York

:

Routledge

.

Hinton

,

Alexander Laban

2005

Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

Hinton

,

Alexander Laban

2008

Truth, Representation and the Politics of Memory after Genocide

. In

People of Virtue: Reconfiguring Religion, Power and Morality in Cambodia Today

.

Copenhagen

:

NIAS Press

.

Hinton

,

Alexander Laban

, ed.

2002a

Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

Hinton

,

Alexander Laban

, ed.

2002b

Genocide: An Anthropological Reader

.

Malden, MA

:

Blackwell

.

Kleinman

,

Arthur

,

Das

Veena

, and

Lock

Margaret

, eds.

1997

Social Suffering

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

Kuper

,

Leo

1981

Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century

.

New Haven

:

Yale University Press

.

LaCapra

,

Dominick

1998

History and Memory after Auschwitz

.

Ithaca

:

Cornell University Press

.

Lemkin

,

Raphaël

1944

Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress

.

Washington

:

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law

.

Levi

,

Neil

, and

Rothberg

Michael

, eds.

2003

The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings

.

New Brunswick, NJ

:

Rutgers University Press

.

Levi

,

Primo

1989

The Drowned and the Saved

.

New York

:

Vintage

.

Malkki

,

Liisa H.

1995

Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania

.

Chicago

:

University of Chicago Press

.

Miller

,

Henry

1961 [1934]

Tropic of Cancer

.

New York

:

Grove

.

Nagengast

,

Carole

1994

Violence, Terror, and the Crisis of the State

.

Annual Review of Anthropology

23

:

109

–

136

.

Nelson

,

Diane

2003

The More You Kill the More You Will Live: The Maya, "Race," and Biopolitical Hopes for Peace in Guatemala

. In

Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference

.

Moore

Donald S.

,

Kosek

Jake

, and

Pandian

Anand

, eds. Pp.

122

–

146

.

Durham, NC

:

Duke University Press

.

Nordstrom

,

Carolyn

, and

Robben

Antonius C. G. M.

, eds.

1995

Fieldwork under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

O'Neill

,

Kevin Lewis

2005

Writing Guatemala's Genocide: Christianity and Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

.

Journal for Genocide Research

7

:(

3

)

310

–

331

.

Padilla

,

Herberto

1993

History

. In

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness

.

Forché

C.

, ed. P.

602

.

New York

:

Norton

.

Postone

,

Moishe

, and

Santner

Eric

, eds.

2003

Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century

.

Chicago

:

University of Chicago Press

.

Proyecto Interdiocesano de Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (REMHI)

.

1998

Guatemala: Nunca más

.

4

vols.

Guatemala City

:

Oficina de Derechos Humanos Arzobispado de Guatemala

.

Recovery of Historical Memory Project (REMHI)

.

1999

Guatemala: Never Again

.

Siebentritt

Gretta Tovar

, trans.

New York

:

Orbis

.

Riches

,

David

1986

The Phenomenon of Violence

. In

The Anthropology of Violence

.

Riches

David

, ed. Pp.

1

–

27

.

Oxford

:

Blackwell

.

Rosaldo

,

Renato

1989

Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis

.

Boston

:

Beacon

.

Sanford

,

Victoria

2003

Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala

.

New York

:

Palgrave Macmillan

.

Santayana

,

George

1944

Persons and Places

.

New York

:

Scribner

.

Scheper-Hughes

,

Nancy

, and

Bourgois

Philippe

, eds.

2004

Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology

.

Malden, MA

:

Blackwell

.

Scheper-Hughes

,

Nancy

, and

Lock

Margaret

Persons and Places

1985

Speaking "Truth" to Illness: Metaphors, Reifications, and a Pedagogy for Patients

.

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

17

:(

5

)

137

–

140

.

Schmidt

,

Bettina E.

, and

Schröder

Ingo W.

, eds.

2001

Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

.

New York

:

Routledge

.

Sluka

,

Jeffrey A.

, ed.

2000

Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror

.

Philadelphia

:

University of Pennsylvania Press

.

Stewart

,

Pamela J.

, and

Strathern

Andrew

2002

Violence: Theory and Ethnography

.

New York

:

Continuum

.

Strathern

,

Andrew

,

Stewart

,

Pamela J.

, and

Whitehead

Neil L.

, eds.

2006

Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable

.

London

:

Pluto

.

Taussig

,

Michael

1984

Culture of Terror, Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture

.

Comparative Studies in Society and History

26

:(

3

)

467

–

497

.

Taussig

,

Michael

1987

Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing

.

Chicago

:

University of Chicago Press

.

Totten

,

Samuel

,

Parsons

William S.

, and

Charny

Israel W.

, eds.

1997

Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views

.

New York

:

Garland

.

Tyler

,

Stephen

1986

Post-Modern Ethnography

. In

Writing Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

.

Clifford

James

and

Marcus

George E.

, eds. Pp.

122

–

140

.

Berkeley

:

University of California Press

.

White

,

Geoffrey M.

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