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Living in Death: Genocide and Its Functionaries

Living in Death: Genocide and Its Functionaries - Paperback

by Richard Rechtman
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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard Rechtman, Lindsay Turner (Translator), Veena Das (Foreword by)Series:Thinking from ElsewherePublish date:2021-11-02Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9780823297863ISBN-10:823297861UPC:9780823297863Book Category:Political Science, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Genocide & War Crimes, Anthropology, AsiaBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Southeast AsiaSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCDMBWJWA1
Living in Death descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, the same way others go to the office. Bringing philosophical sophistication to the ordinary, the book constitutes both an anthropology of mass killers and a challenge to the conditions that make genocide possible.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9780823297863ISBN-10:823297861UPC:9780823297863Book Category:Political Science, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Genocide & War Crimes, Anthropology, AsiaBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Southeast AsiaSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCDMBWJWA1
Richard Rechtman (Author)
Richard Rechtman is an anthropologist and psychiatrist and director of studies at EHESS in Paris. Since 1990, he has directed a transcultural outpatient clinic for refugees in central Paris. He is the author of several books in French and coauthor, with Didier Fassin, of The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (2009), which won the William A. Douglass Book Prize.

Veena Das (Foreword By)
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University.

Lindsay Turner (Translator)
Lindsay Turner, a poet and translator, is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. She has translated books by Stéphane Bouquet, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Frédéric Neyrat, and Ryoko Sekiguchi.


Publisher: Fordham University Press

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Richard Rechtman, Lindsay Turner (Translator), Veena Das (Foreword by)

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Richard Rechtman

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