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Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania Paperback - 1995 - 1st Edition
by Liisa H. Malkki
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This book explores how essentialized categories of identity such as 'Hutu' and 'Tutsi' are produced through violence and exile. A pioneering study of statelessness and memory, this book is an important contribution to anthropology, history, and cultural studies.
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- Title Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
- Author Liisa H. Malkki
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 374
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-08-15
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780226502724 / 0226502724
- Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.01 x 6.01 x 0.82 in (22.89 x 15.27 x 2.08 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Hutu (African people) - Tanzania - Ethnic, Political refugees - Burundi
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94037099
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.896
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University of Chicago Press, 1995. Book. Good+. Soft cover. 0226502724 Slight cover wear. Underlining to a few pgs. Spine is tight. "In this study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, Liisa Malkki shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct identities such as "Hutu" and "Tutsi." Through extensive fieldwork in two refugee communities, Malkki finds that the refugees' current circumstances significantly influence these constructions. Those living in organized camps created an elaborate "mythico-history" of the Hutu people, which gave significance to exile, and envisioned a collective return to the homeland of Burundi. Other refugees, who had assimilated in a more urban setting, crafted identities in response to the practical circumstances of their day to day lives.…
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