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What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic truth about the past In this important volume, leading anthropologists consider such questions about the relationship of genocide,

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Doony, Ryder, Wyatt, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh\'s sons are the only ones included in her new memoir, Seeing Sideways. As the book unfolds and her sons\' voices rise from its pages, it becomes clear why these names tell the story of her life. This story begins in 1990, when Hersh is the leader of the indie rock group Throwing Muses, touring steadily, and the mother of a young son, Doony. The

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