1998/08/01 by Alexander Laban Hinton · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Cambodian History and Society #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies #Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
paper · doi:10.1525/ae.1998.25.3.352
openalex publication_date 1998/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/05
More than one and one half million Cambodians died from disease, starvation, overwork, and execution under Khmer Rouge rule (1975–79). To help redress the lack of anthropological research on the origins of such large‐scale genocides, in this article I explore how the Cambodian cultural model of disproportionate revenge, in combination with Communist Party ideology, provided a cultural template for the extreme violence that took place during this period , [genocide, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, violence, revenge, cultural models, Marxist ideology]