Ethnocide

The term ethnocide appeared in the French language in 1970 pennies the feather of the ethnologist Robert Jaulin. It indicates the disappearance of the whole of the social and cultural characters of a group of human, the destruction of its civilization by another more powerful ethnicity. It is most frequently used in connection with the disappearance of the cultures specific to the people Indigènes of Americas.

The ethnocide destroys the cultural identity of a group, without necessarily destroying this group physically (contrary to the Génocide). A ethnocide can be the consequence of an economic or social change progressive, therefore to come from a policy of State. One speaks for example about ethnocide of the Occitanie or the Brittany by France, of the Ireland or the Scotland by the England, of the attempt at ethnocide of the Catalogne under the Franquisme.

Lemkin, the inventor of the concept of genocide, considers that, under certain circumstances, the ethnocide is a genocide.

“Ethnocide” and “cultural Genocide”

The concept of “cultural genocide” was introduced later on with that of genocide. Its use is discussed and recuts the field of the ethnocide. According to Jean-François Garreau From aucuns derived from this idea the concept of “cultural genocide”, which would cover acts made deliberately in the intention to prevent the members of a group from using their language, to practice their religion or to have cultural activities, practitioner thus a kind of elimination with small fire being spread in the duration. The concept remains discussed and is generally not retained in the technical speech relating to the genocide. , but finally was not retained, was replaced by the expression “assimilation forced”.

See also

Related articles

Works of Robert Jaulin treating ethnocide

  • white peace: Introduction to the ethnocide , Collective Threshold, 1970.

  • , Of the ethnocide , coll 10/18, 1972.
  • the ethnocide through of Americas , Beech, 1972.
  • the decivilisation , Éditions Complexes, 1974.

External bond

  • the concept of ethnocide by Clastres Pierre in Encyclopædia Universalis France (1999)

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