Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania de Malkki, Liisa H - 1995-08-15

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Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. Softcover. Very Good. Study of statelessness and memory in the experience of Hutu refugees who fled the 1972 genocide in Burundi and found asylum in Tanzania. 352 pages, index, notes & references. Cover curl, corners lightly bumped.

University of Chicago Press, 1995. Book. Good+. Soft cover. 0226502724 Slight cover wear. Underlining to a few pgs. Spine is tight. "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 refugees, who had assimilated in a more urban setting, crafted identities in response to the practical circumstances of their day to day lives.… Leer más

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University of Chicago Press, 1995-08-15. Paperback. Good+. 9x6x0. A good+ paperback copy, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy. Some pencil underlining and marginalia scattered thought, text is always readable. Light shelfwear.