TY - BOOK AU - Hinton,Alexander Laban TI - Why did they kill? : Cambodia in the shadow of genocide: Cambodia in the shadow of genocide T2 - California series in public anthropology SN - 9780520241794 AV - DS554 .H56 U1 - 959.604/2 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Rote Khmer KW - gnd KW - swd KW - Political atrocities KW - Cambodia KW - Genocide KW - Atrocités politiques KW - Cambodge KW - Génocide KW - fast KW - Political science KW - Khmer Rouge KW - Internal conflicts KW - Politics and government KW - 1975-1979 KW - Politique et gouvernement N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-349) and index; Introduction : in the shadow of genocide -- The prison without walls -- A head for an eye : Disproportionate Revenge -- Power, patronage, and suspicion -- In the shade of Pol Pot's umbrella -- The fire without smoke -- The DK social order -- Manufacturing difference -- The dark side of face and honor -- Conclusion : why people kill N2 - Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Policies in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of over 1.7 million of that country's 8 million inhabitants--almost a quarter of the population--who perished from starvation, overwork, illness, malnutrition, and execution. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies UR - http://site.ebrary.com/id/10068599 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0417/2004009189.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/2004009189.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal051/2004009189.html ER -