Purity And Exile

Klappentext This book explores how essentialized categories of identity such as 'Hutu' and 'Tutsi' are produced through violence and exile. A pioneering study of statelessness and memory, this book is an important contribution to anthropology, history, and cultural studies. Zusammenfassung 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."

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Liisa H. Malkki, Malkki Liisa H.
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.09.1995
• EAN: 9780226502724
• ISBN: 978-0-226-50272-4
• Pagine: 374
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Burundi, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Historiography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Historiography, Black & Asian Studies, Refugees and political asylum, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, Refugees & Political Asylum, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies