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Purity and exile : violence, memory, and national cosmology among Hutu refugees in Tanzania / Liisa H. Malkki.
Author
Malkki, Liisa H. (Liisa Helena)
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Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Description
xiv, 352 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
DT443.3.H88 M35 1995
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Subject(s)
Hutu (African people)
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Tanzania
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Ethnic identity
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Political refugees
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Burundi
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Political refugees
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Tanzania
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-344) and index.
Contents
Introduction: An Ethnography of Displacement in the National Order of Things
1. Historical Contexts, Social Locations: A Road Map
2. The Mythico-History
3. The Uses of History in the Refugee Camp: Living the Present in Historical Terms
4. Town Refugees: A Pragmatics of Identity
5. The Danger of Assimilation and the Purity of Exile
6. Consciousness and Liminality in the Cosmological Order of Nations
Postscript: Return to Genocide.
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ISBN
0226502716 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780226502717 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0226502724 ((paper ; : alk. paper))
9780226502724 ((paper ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
94037099
OCLC
31376553
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