Purity And Exile

Violence, Memory, And National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees In Tanzania

by Liisa H. Malkki
language: english
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, August of 1995 ‧
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This study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile after their 1972 insurrection against the Tutsi was suppressed, shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct identities such as "Hutu" and "Tutsi."

Purity And Exile

Violence, Memory, And National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees In Tanzania

by Liisa H. Malkki

Property Description
ISBN: 9780226502724
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Release Date: August of 1995
Language: English
Dimensions: 150 x 227 x 21 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 374
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > History > General History
EAN: 9780226502724