Acknowledgements. .

Introduction: Genocide and Anthropology: Alexander Laban
Hinton.

Part I: Conceptual Foundations.

Part II: Genocide, History, and Modernity.

Part III: Manufacturing Difference and "Purification".

Part IV: Coping and Understanding.

Appendix: Websites on Genocide.

Index.

"An excellent contribution to the field of genocide studies: lucid,
wide-ranging, and accessible; should be a core text in any course
on genocide." Roger W. Smith, The College of William and
Mary

"This volume, edited and ably introduced by an important scholar
of genocide, is an especially timely and important contribution to
a growing field. Essential international documents coupled with an
excellent collection of previously published articles attempt to
explain genocide and related state violence as the first step
towards prevention. This fine book is especially suitable for
undergraduate and graduate courses." Carole Nagengast,
University of New Mexico

"This Reader will be useful for college teachers and
novice administrators. Each contribution examines dramatic and
controversial issues of immediate concern. While the collection
addresses genocidal disasters, its emphasis is on the differences
among them, and the varied interpretations that have been made of
their causes and their consequences." Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute

Alexander Laban Hinton is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and a faculty fellow in the Center for Global Change and Governance at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the editor of Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (1999) and Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (2002), an edited collection of new research articles

A. Hinton, Rutgers University