Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
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.
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226502724 (0226502724)
Publish date: August 15th 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 374
Edition language: English
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