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Book Reviews Asian Ethnicity, Volume 8, Number 2, June 2007 Barry Sautman (Ed.), Cultural Genocide and Asian State Peripheries, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 279 pp. Index, ISBN 13: 9-78-1-4039-7574-4. The essays presented in this volume explore the complex, controversial and politically charged issue of cultural genocide in five diverse Asian contexts. The contributors investigate cases of ethnic minorities inhabiting the peripheries of five Asian states in which cultural genocide has been applied or implied: the aborigines of Taiwan (Michael Rudolph), the Ainu in Japan (Katarina Sjoberg), the West Papuans in Indonesia (John Otto Ondawame), the Nagas in India (Dolly Kikon) and the Tibetans in China (Barry Sautman). The introductory chapter by the editor begins by placing the concept in historical and international context, tracing its development from the Nazi genocide of the 1940s through its various iterations in the United Nations to contemporary legal and scholarly interpretations. In doing so, Sautman highlights the analytical slipperiness of the concept and the dangers inherent in its inaccurate deployment in political discourse. Moreover, he argues that such inaccurate deployment of the concept in both political discourse and scholarship may be counterproductive to the advancement of minority or indigenous rights. This identification of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Ethnicity Taylor & Francis

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Asian Ethnicity , Volume 8 (2): 6 – Jun 1, 2007
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Asian Ethnicity, Volume 8, Number 2, June 2007 Barry Sautman (Ed.), Cultural Genocide and Asian State Peripheries, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 279 pp. Index, ISBN 13: 9-78-1-4039-7574-4. The essays presented in this volume explore the complex, controversial and politically charged issue of cultural genocide in five diverse Asian contexts. The contributors investigate cases of ethnic minorities inhabiting the peripheries of five Asian states in which cultural genocide has been applied or implied: the aborigines of Taiwan (Michael Rudolph), the Ainu in Japan (Katarina Sjoberg), the West Papuans in Indonesia (John Otto Ondawame), the Nagas in India (Dolly Kikon) and the Tibetans in China (Barry Sautman). The introductory chapter by the editor begins by placing the concept in historical and international context, tracing its development from the Nazi genocide of the 1940s through its various iterations in the United Nations to contemporary legal and scholarly interpretations. In doing so, Sautman highlights the analytical slipperiness of the concept and the dangers inherent in its inaccurate deployment in political discourse. Moreover, he argues that such inaccurate deployment of the concept in both political discourse and scholarship may be counterproductive to the advancement of minority or indigenous rights. This identification of the

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