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Genocide and socio-political change: massacres in two Rwandan villages
Issue • 23 (2) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 18-21
By: Longman, Timothy Paul.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the nature of the violence that swept Rwanda in 1994 based on a contrastive analysis of the ways the massacres were locally organized in to two remotely located communities. It argues that the massacres in Rwanda, rather than being the inevitable result of an intractable primordial ethnic conflict, were clearly political in nature.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Warfare
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Congregations
- Social relationships and groups
- Political movements
- Political parties
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rwandans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Political Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1992-1993
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1992-1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Rwanda
- NotesAdditional notes
- Timothy Longman
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75617054
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology Rwanda