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The Barundi are a culturally and linguistically homogenous group of people living mostly in the Republic of Burundi, a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east central Africa. Like in neighboring Rwanda, the hierarchical relations between peoples of ethnic Hutu, Tutsi and Twa identities has been the most important aspect of social and political organization in Burundi. Exaggerated during the colonial period, and strategically mobilized by ethnic politicians in the context of post independence transformation, this differentiation has been associated with cyclical violence in the region. Painful legacies of this cycle include the genocide of Hutu by Tutsi in Burundi (1972), of Tutsi and Hutu by Hutu in Rwanda (1994) and of Hutu by Tutsi in Congo (1996-1997).

Women of Burundi

The study of native court records as a method of ethnological inquiry

Genocide in the Great Lakes

Purity and exile

The Barundi

The structure of the Barundi community

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Albert, Ethel M.	Women of Burundi	1963
Hall, R. de Z. (Robert de Zouche)	The study of native court records as a method of ethnological inquiry	1938
Lemarchand, RenΘ	Genocide in the Great Lakes	1998
Malkki, Liisa H. (Liisa Helena)	Purity and exile	1995
Meyer, Hans	The Barundi	1916
Smets, George	The structure of the Barundi community	1946
Trouwborst, Albert	Culture Summary	2010

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