Waging war, making peace : reparations and human rights /

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Corporate author / creator:American Anthropological Association. Reparations Task Force.
Imprint:Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2009.
Description:272 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7482503
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Other authors / contributors:Johnston, Barbara Rose.
Slyomovics, Susan.
ISBN:9781598743432 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1598743430 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781598743449 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1598743449 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:"Based on a report from the American Anthropological Association, Committee for Human Rights, Reparations Task Force."
Based on essays first presented during a double session of panels at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose, California, in 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Waging war, making peace: the anthropology of reparations / Barbara Rose Johnston
  • The ethical dimensions of peace / Gretchen E. Schafft
  • When governments fail: reparation, solidarity, and community in Nicaragua / James Phillips
  • From theory to practice: implementing reparations in post-truth commission Peru / Lisa J. Laplante
  • Reparations in Morocco: the symbolic dirham / Susan Slyomovics
  • "Victims of crime" and "victims of justice": the symbolic and financial aspects in U.S. compensation programs / Maria-Pia Di Bella
  • "We all must have the same treatment": calculating the damages of human rights abuses for the people of Diego Garcia / David Vine, Philip Harvey, and S. Wojciech Sokolowski
  • Milpa matters: the Maya community of Toledo versus the government of Belize / Liza Grandia
  • Reparations and the illusive meaning of justice in Guatemala / Kathleen Dill
  • Of lemons and laws: property and the (trans)national order in Cyprus / Rebecca Bryant
  • Israel and the Palestinian refugees: postpragmatic reflections on historical narratives, closure, transitional justice and Palestinian refugees' right to refuse / Dan Rabinowitz
  • Reparations and human rights: why the anthropological approach matters / Alison Dundes Renteln.