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

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press ; c1995.Description: xiv, 352p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780226502724
  • 0226502724
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23rd ed. 305.89639461 MAL
Contents:
An Ethnography of displacement in the National order of things - - Historical contexts, social locations: a road map - - The Mythico-History - - The uses of history in the refugee camp: living the present in historical terms - - Town refugees: a pragmatics of identity - - The danger of assimilation and the purity of exile - - Consciousness and liminality in the cosmological order of Nations.
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An Ethnography of displacement in the National order of things - - Historical contexts, social locations: a road map - - The Mythico-History - - The uses of history in the refugee camp: living the present in historical terms - - Town refugees: a pragmatics of identity - - The danger of assimilation and the purity of exile - - Consciousness and liminality in the cosmological order of Nations.

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