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Why did they kill?: Cambodia in the shadow of genocide
- A. Hinton
- Political Science
- 6 December 2004
Between seizing power in April 1975 and being overthrown in January 1979, the Democratic Kampuchea regime of the Khmer Rouge killed over one and a half million people, ranging from ethnic minorities… Expand
A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide
- A. Hinton
- History
- 1 August 1998
More than one and one half million Cambodians died from disease, starvation, overwork, and execution under Khmer Rouge rule (1975–79). To help redress the lack of anthropological research on the… Expand
Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions
- A. Hinton
- Sociology
- 28 November 1999
1. Introduction: developing a biocultural approach to the emotions Alexander Laban Hinton Part I. Local Biology: 2. Emotions Carol M. Worthman 3. Toward an understanding of the universality of second… Expand
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Agents of Death: Explaining the Cambodian Genocide in Terms of Psychosocial Dissonance
- A. Hinton
- Sociology
- 1 December 1996
Analyzing the Cambodian genocide, this article proposes that the concept of psychosocial dissonance (PSD) can be fruitfully used to understand how individuals come to commit genocidal atrocities. PSD… Expand
Why Did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor
- A. Hinton
- Sociology
- 1 February 1998
L'enquete ethnographique au Cambodge avait pour objectif de mieux comprendre comment les Khmers Rouges avaient pu participer au genocide couvert par le regime democratique Kampuchea (d'avril 1975 a… Expand
Critical Genocide Studies
- A. Hinton
- Sociology
- 2 April 2012
Over the last two decades, the interdisciplinary field of genocide studies has dramatically expanded and matured. No longer in the shadow of Holocaust studies, it is now the primary subject of… Expand
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
- N. Scheper-Hughes, P. Bourgois, +46 authors W. Soyinka
- Sociology
- 7 November 2003
DESCRIPTION From Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” to Joseph Conrad’s “fascination of the abomination,” humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of… Expand
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Khmerness and the Thai ‘Other’: Violence, Discourse and Symbolism in the 2003 Anti-Thai Riots in Cambodia
- A. Hinton
- History
- 1 October 2006
If this Thai actress said that she hates Cambodians like dogs, we would like to tell her that Cambodians throughout the country hate Thais like leeches that suck other nations' blood.... If it is… Expand
Nightmares Among Cambodian Refugees: The Breaching of Concentric Ontological Security
- D. Hinton, A. Hinton, V. Pich, J. R. Loeum, M. Pollack
- Psychology, Medicine
- Culture, medicine and psychiatry
- 31 March 2009
This article explores the nightmares of Cambodian refugees in a cultural context, and the role of nightmares in the trauma ontology of this population, including their role in generating… Expand
Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation
- A. Hinton, K. O'Neill, N. Whitehead, J. Fair, L. A. Payne
- Sociology
- 17 March 2009
Acknowledgments vii Genocide, Truth, Memory, and Representation: An Introduction / Kevin Lewis O'Neill and Alexander Laban Hinton 1 Part 1. Truth/Memory/Representation 1. What Is an Anthropology of… Expand