Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation

by Alexander Laban Hinton

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082234405X
• ISBN13: 9780822344056
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"