Organic purity and the role of anthropology in Cambodia and Rwanda

2024-12-27 Classification：Archaeology Click()
Author：Straus, S

Article Title：Organic purity and the role of anthropology in Cambodia and Rwanda

Abstract：
Straus investigates the ideology of two genocidal regimes in the developing world: the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and Hutu Power in Rwanda. Although the regimes were quite different-one Communist, the other nationalist-he argues that their ideals converged around a notion of organic purity Both regimes pursued extraordinary violence to meet the ideal: mass destruction was a method to achieve organic purity. Straus further contends that anthropological writings provided the necessary ideational building blocks for this ideal. In promoting a violent return to a mythic past, both murderous regimes embraced the images and concepts of European archaeology and ethnography.

Keywords: anthropology; Cambodia; Communism; genocide; nationalism; Rwanda

DOI: 10.1080/003132201128811142

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