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Informationen zum Autor Laura Eramian is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Her previous publications appeared in the Political and Legal Anthropology Review , Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology , Anthropologica , and the International Journal of Conflict and Violence . Klappentext This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 1994 genocide, from cultural contradictions around "good" personhood, and from both state and popular visions for the future. What emerges is a profound dissonance in town residents' selfhood. While they strive to be agents of change who can catalyze a new era of modern Rwandan nationhood, they are also devastated by the genocide and struggle to recover a sense of selfhood and belonging in the absence of kin, friends, and neighbors. In drawing out the contradictions at the heart of self-making and social life in contemporary Rwanda, this book asserts a novel argument about the ordinary lives caught in global post-conflict imperatives to remember and to forget, to mourn and to prosper. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Person, Nation, and Violence in Rwanda Chapter 1. The Post-Conflict Moment in Butare and its Antecedents Chapter 2. Ethnicity's Specter in Post-Ethnic Times Chapter 3. Living with Absence Chapter 4. Creativity, Positive Thinking, and Their Perils Chapter 5. Making Peace by Remaking Persons Conclusion: The Post-conflict, the Postcolonial, and Peaceful Selves Glossary Bibliography Index ...
