Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania - Liisa H. Malkki - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226502717 - August 15, 1995
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Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania 1st edition


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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."


374 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released August 15, 1995
ISBN13 9780226502717
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 374
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   709 g
Language English  

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