Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees i

Description: Purity and Exile by Liisa H. Malkki 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." FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Malkki reveals how such things as national identity, historical consciousness, and the social imagination of "enemies" get constructed in the process of everyday life. The book closes with an epilogue looking at the recent violence between Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi, and showing how the movement of large refugee populations across national borders has shaped patterns of violence in the region. Author Biography Liisa H. Malkki is associate professor of cultural anthropology at Stanford University and author of Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Table of Contents List of Narrative Panels Acknowledgments Maps 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 Notes References Index Details ISBN0226502724 Author Liisa H. Malkki Pages 374 Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0226502724 ISBN-13 9780226502724 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1995 Imprint University of Chicago Press Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Illustrations 10 maps Short Title PURITY & EXILE 2/E DOI 10.1604/9780226502724 UK Release Date 1995-08-15 AU Release Date 1995-08-15 NZ Release Date 1995-08-15 US Release Date 1995-08-15 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Publication Date 1995-08-15 DEWEY 305.89675720678 Audience Undergraduate Subtitle Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161786907;

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