Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April to January 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.
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. A Head for an Eye: Disproportionate Revenge 2. Power, Patronage, and Suspicion 3.
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. 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.
A Head for an Eye: Disproportionate Revenge 2. Power, Patronage, and Suspicion 3. The DK Social Order 5. Manufacturing Difference 6. Sku NPB ISBN 13 ISBN 10 Title Why Did They Kill?
Author Alexander Laban Hinton. Rate this book. Why Did They Kill? Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over million dead worldwide.
In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April to January 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. 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.
History Anthropology Nonfiction Asia More Details. Alexander Laban Hinton 13 books 5 followers. Search review text. People reviewing this and deriding as jargony and dispassionate are missing the point. It's an anthropological study of a genocide, without the trappings and drawbacks of emotion. Emotions play a big part in human life, but often they are a roadblock to discovering root causes and understanding.
Dark and emotional subjects like genocide deserve no less of a treatment, and Hinton provides exactly that. It IS an academic work of anthropology and sociology, but I read it as an undergrad whose discipline was history, and I didn't find it too difficult to read. I highly recommend it. Author talked a lot about disproportional revenge and how people hold grudge and wait for the right time to beat the enemies.
However, I have some doubt on this. Is this culture really popular in everyday life for Cambodian? If this were true, too many people will get hurt and die very often, to the extend of unable to hold the society itself. Also, to hold grudge and smile to the enemy is against the basic human desire, and I doubt how many people will able to do that.
But, in China, this only appears in very few but popular old tellings and practice very very rare. If somehow very unfortunately some cruel dictator took over the U. There is of course huge value inside digging the issue of Cambodian massacre, understand the causes and dynamic inside it.
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