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Purity and exile : violence, memory, and national cosmology among Hutu refugees in Tanzania / Liisa H. Malkki.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.Description: xiv, 352 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0226502716 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226502724 (paper : alk. paper)
- 305.8 MALÂ 20
- DT443.3.H88Â M35 1995
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
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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