Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Baram, Uzi

Keywords

Genocide, Rwanda, Witness, Race, Ethnicity

Area of Concentration

Anthropology

Abstract

The academic scholarship available on genocide is limited. Alexander Hinton is one of the few anthropologists who has written extensively about genocide; his writing explores the roles that anthropology can play with respect to genocide from both a preventative and a prescriptive perspective. Using Hinton�s work as a foundation, this thesis will explore the role that anthropologists can play in preventing genocide, investigating the connections between everyday practices of violence and more extreme derivatives of violence. I will focus my lens on the Rwandan genocide, using this as a template to evaluate anthropology�s place in the study of genocide due to the specific racial worldview that contributed to the genocide. This thesis will also include an analysis of the popular film Hotel Rwanda in order to examine the effects of visual representations of genocide.

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