Purity and Exile Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania

Name: Purity and Exile Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
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ISBN: 9780226502724

ISBN-10: 0226502724

ISBN-13: 9780226502724

Edition: 1995

Authors: Liisa H. Malkki

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In this study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, Liisa Malkki 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." Through extensive fieldwork in two refugee communities, Malkki finds that the refugees' current circumstances significantly influence these constructions. Those living in organized camps created an elaborate "mythico-history" of the Hutu people, which gave significance to exile, and envisioned a collective return to the homeland of Burundi. Other…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 374
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



List of Narrative Panels


Acknowledgments Maps


Introduction: An Ethnography of Displacement in the National Order of Things



Historical Contexts, Social Locations: A Road Map



The Mythico-History



The Uses of History in the Refugee Camp: Living the Present in Historical Terms



Town Refugees: A Pragmatics of Identity



The Danger of Assimilation and the Purity of Exile



Consciousness and Liminality in the Cosmological Order of Nations Postscript: Return to Genocide


Notes


References


Index