Purity and Exile : Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0226502724
ISBN-13
9780226502724
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 15th, 1995
Print length
374 Pages
Weight
594 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.30 x 2.20 cms
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This study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile after their 1972 insurrection against the Tutsi was suppressed, 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."
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