%0 Book
%T Purity and exile: violence, memory, and national cosmology among Hutu refugees in Tanzania
%A Malkki, Liisa H. (Liisa Helena)
%D 1995
%I University of Chicago Press
%C Chicago
%@ 0226502716
%G English
%F fo58-005
%O Liisa H. Malkki
%O BD#92872; LOC search performed 2/27/09; Pages: 374; ready for analysis 2/27/09;
%O Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-344) and index
%X This book is concerned with Burundian Hutu refugeesliving in Tanzania who fled their home country in 1972 following genocidal attacks organized by the Tutsi-dominated Burundian government. The focus is on the ways the displacement expereince led to the creation of 'essentialist' Hutu and Tutsi ethnic identities and the horrible violence that has been generated from them in Burundi and neigboring countries. The author achieves this goal by comparing the lives of 'camp refugees' in Mishamo to that of the 'town refugees' in Kigoma. The book argues that the expereince of being a 'camp refugee' has in fact exacerbated political and ethnic conflict through the production of 'mythico-historical' world views.
%K Hutu (African people)
%K Tanzania
%K Ethnic identity
%K Political refugees
%K Burundi
%K Barundi
%K Cultural identity and pride
%K Ethnic stratification
%K Traditional history
%K Mythology
%K History
%K Inter-ethnic relations
%K Warfare
%K Aftermath of combat
%K Instigation of war
%K External relations
%K Inter-community relations
%K Military organization
%K Political parties
%K Elections
%K Social relationships and groups
%K Political movements
%K Chief executive
%K Peacemaking
%K Poverty
%K Real property
%K Education system
%K Acculturation and culture contact
%K Mail
%9 bibliographic
%U https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=fo58-005
%[ 2022-07-02