Introduction: Genocide and anthropology / Alexander Laban Hinton -- Genocide / Raphaël Lemkin -- Text of the UN Genocide Convention -- Genocide : its political use in the twentieth century / Leo Kuper -- Genocide : a sociological perspective / Helen Fein -- Eichmann in Jerusalem : a report on the banality of evil / Hannah Arendt -- Modernity and the Holocaust / Zygmunt Bauman -- Victims of progress / John H. Bodley -- Culture of terror-- space of death : Roger Casement's Putumayo report and the explanation of torture / Michael Taussig --National Socialist Germany / Eric R. Wolf -- "Ethnic cleansing" : a metaphor for our time? / Akbar S. Ahmed -- Imagined communities and real victims : self-determination and ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia / Robert M. Hayden -- Head for an eye : revenge in the Cambodian genocide / Alexander Laban Hinton -- Dead certainty : ethnic violence in the era of globalization / Arjun Appadurai -- Fear as a way of life / Linda Green -- Myth of global ethnic conflict / John R. Bowen -- Speechless emissaries : refugees, humanitarianism, and dehistoricization / Liisa H. Malkki.