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Barbara A. Anderson, DrPH, is Director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) at Frontier Nursing University. Her doctoral and post-doctoral work was at Loma Linda University and Stony Brook University. She is a public health specialist and nurse-midwife with extensive teaching, service and consultation experience in Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America. She conducted doctoral work and has been a consultant with refugee health in the refugee camps along the Cambodian border, in Cambodia and for resettled refugees in the United States. She has numerous publications focusing on health issues among vulnerable populations. She co-authored both the 2nd and 3rd edition of Caring for the Vulnerable, Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Practice and Research, with Dr. Mary de Chesnay. The 3rd edition won an American Journal of Nursing award as best nursing book of the year in 2012.
E. N. Anderson is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967. He has done research on ethnobiology, cultural ecology, political ecology, and medical anthropology, in several areas, especially Hong Kong, British Columbia, California, and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. His books include The Food of China (Yale University Press. 1988), Ecologies of the Heart (Oxford University Press, 1996), Political Ecology of a Yucatec Maya Community (University Press of Arizona Press, 2005) and The Pursuit of Ecotopia (Praeger, 2010).
Dedication
Acknowledgments
PrefaceThe Deadly Seeds of Genocide
Chapter 1 Genocide Defined
Chapter 2 Paper tiger Rising: Fear
Chapter 3 From Fear to Hatred
Chapter 4 Animating tigers: Dehumanization, Structural Violence,
and Paper Tigers
Chapter 5 The Tiger Stalks: The Steps of Genocide
Chapter 6 Excursions into History
Chapter 7 Causes, and Some Predictions
Chapter 8 Sowing Good Seeds: Sustaining the Soil of Community
Appendix I Statistics of Genocide, with Risk Factors
Appendix II. Genocide compared
References
Index
The book Warning Signs of Genocide: An Anthropological Perspective is a major contribution to addressing one of the crucial problems of humanity in our times—how to prevent genocide. Based on years of traveling and close knowledge of persons whose lives have been altered forever by the horrors of genocide, they propose the warning signs that give humanity—if it so wills—the possibility to know about genocide before it happens, and perhaps to prevent it.
The authors use an original public health approach (what might be called epidemiology of genocide). They suggest a predictive model of genocide and offer strategies for prevention, that can help humanity eliminate the deadly seeds of genocide before the soil is poisoned.
— Yair Auron, PhD, The Open University of Israel
Anderson (emer., Univ. of California, Riverside) and Anderson (Frontier Nursing School) have produced a thought-provoking study of the causes of genocide, employing methodologies from anthropology and public health to make their case. The authors are clear that they have not penned a complete review of genocide studies, nor are they intending "to just speak to genocide scholars." Rather, they offer "a new explanation ... an epidemiology of genocide." Using both recent and historical examples, they explore indirect and direct causes of genocide, providing readers with a robust perspective on causative factors that give rise to instances of genocide. The Andersons also identify "good seeds," factors that might reduce the risk of future genocides: accountable governance is one such good seed they cite. The book, which includes useful appendixes and a comparison of past genocides, could have benefited from a more thorough explication of the methods they employed, but overall, this is a solid contribution that speaks to audiences beyond genocide scholars. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals/practitioners.
— Choice Reviews