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).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Ethnic stratification
- Traditional history
- Mythology
- History
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- Instigation of war
- External relations
- Inter-community relations
- Military organization
- Political parties
- Political parties
- Elections
- Social relationships and groups
- Political movements
- Chief executive
- Peacemaking
- Poverty
- Real property
- Education system
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Barundi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- 1984-1986, 1990-1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960-1995
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Burundi and Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- Liisa H. Malkki
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-344) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94037099
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hutu (African people)--Tanzania--Ethnic identity
- Political refugees--Burundi
- Political refugees--Tanzania