Purity and exile : violence, memory, and national cosmology among Hutu refugees in Tanzania / Liisa H. Malkki.

Author
Malkki, Liisa H. (Liisa Helena) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Description
xiv, 352 pages : maps ; 24 cm

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        Subject(s)
        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.
        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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