Book
Purity and exile: violence, memory, and national cosmology among Hutu refugees in Tanzania
University of Chicago Press • Chicago • Published In 1995 • Pages:
By: Malkki, Liisa H. (Liisa Helena).
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Central Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field Date
- 1984-1986, 1990-1991
- Coverage Date
- 1960-1995
- Coverage Place
- Burundi and Tanzania
- Notes
- Liisa H. Malkki
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-344) and index
- LCCN
- 94037099
- LCSH
- Hutu (African people)--Tanzania--Ethnic identity
- Political refugees--Burundi
- Political refugees--Tanzania