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Author Nyirubugara, Olivier.

Title Complexities and dangers of remembering and forgetting in Rwanda / Olivier Nyirubugara
Published Leiden : Sidestone Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Memory traps ; v. 1
Nyirubugara, Olivier. Memory traps ; v. 1
Contents pt. 1. Memory policing -- pt. 2. Memory transmission -- pt. 3. Memory at work
Summary Can a society, a culture, a country, be trapped by its own memories? The question is not easy to answer, but it would not be a bad idea to cautiously say: 'It depends'. This book is about one society - Rwanda - and its culture, traditions, identities, and memories. More specifically, it discusses some of the ways in which ethnic identities and related memories constitute a deadly trap that needs to be torn apart if mass violence is to be eradicated in that country. It looks into everyday cultural practices such as child naming and oral traditions (myths and tales, proverbs, war poetry etc.) an
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Subject Rwandans -- History
HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
Rwandans
Völkermord in Ruanda
Kollektives Gedächtnis
SUBJECT Rwanda -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95000215
Subject Rwanda
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789088901607
9088901600
1299559069
9781299559066