CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. The Dark Side of Modernity: Toward an Anthropology of Genocide -- PART ONE. MODERNITY'S EDGES: GENOCIDE AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES -- 2. Genocide against Indigenous Peoples -- 3. Confronting Genocide and Ethnocide of Indigenous Peoples: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Denition, Intervention,Prevention, and Advocacy -- PART TWO. ESSENTIALIZING DIFFERENCE: ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN THE HOLOCAUST -- 4. Justifying Genocide: Archaeology and the Construction of Difference -- 5. Scientific Racism in Service of the Reich: German Anthropologists in the Nazi Era -- PART THREE. ANNIHILATING DIFFERENCE: LOCAL DIMENSIONS OF GENOCIDE -- 6. The Cultural Face of Terror in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 -- 7. Dance, Music, and the Nature of Terror in Democratic Kampuchea -- 8. Averted Gaze: Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995 -- PART FOUR. GENOCIDE'S WAKE: TRAUMA, MEMORY, COPING, AND RENEWAL -- 9. Archives of Violence: The Holocaust and the German Politics of Memory -- 10. Aftermaths of Genocide: Cambodian Villagers -- 11. Terror, Grief, and Recovery: Genocidal Trauma in a Mayan Village in Guatemala -- 12. Recent Developments in the International Law of Genocide: An Anthropological Perspective on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda -- PART FIVE. CRITICAL REFLECTIONS: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF GENOCIDE -- 13. Inoculations of Evil in the U.S.-Mexican Border Region: Reflections on the Genocidal Potential of Symbolic Violence -- 14. Coming to our Senses: Anthropology and Genocide -- 15. Culture, Genocide, and a Public Anthropology -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.