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36 the dark side of modernity
24. Malkki (1996, 1997); Appadurai (1996). On post–Cold War challenges to the nationstate,
see Ferguson (forthcoming).
25. As Linke, drawing on Omer Bartov’s (1998) work, points out, the popularity of Daniel
Goldhagen’s (1996) book in Germany may have been, at least in part, due to the fact that it
reinforced the notion that Nazi Germany was like another society and therefore didn’t implicate
the current generation.
26. Let me stress that, through the use of metaphors of priming and heat, I do not want
to convey the image of genocide as a primordial conflict waiting to explode. In fact, I want
to do exactly the opposite and emphasize that genocide is a process that emerges from a variety
of factors, or “primes,” and that always involves impetus and organization from above,
what I call “genocidal activation.” For another use of metaphors of “heat” and “cold” to
describe ethnonationalist violence in a manner that argues against primordialist explanations,
see Appadurai (1996: 164f ).
27. The interdisciplinary possibilities for the study of genocide are evident from several
recent educational initiatives, including a comprehensive encyclopedia, books, and teaching
guides related to genocide (e.g., Andreopoulos and Claude 1997; Charny 1999; Fein 1990;
Freedman-Apsel and Fein 1992). Similarly, several interdisciplinary edited volumes have also
been published in recent years (e.g., Andreopoulos 1994; Chorbajian and Shirinian 1999;
Fein 1990; Totten, Parsons, and Charny 1997; Wallimann 2000). For a more complete review,
see Hinton (2002). Unfortunately, in part because of their lack of engagement with
genocide, anthropologists have been underrepresented in such interdisciplinary projects.
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