| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Person, nation, and violence in Rwanda -- The post-conflict moment in Butare and its antecedents -- Ethnicity's specter in post-ethnic times -- Living with absence -- Creativity, positive thinking, and their perils -- Making peace by remaking persons -- Conclusion: The post-conflict, the postcolonial, and peaceful selves |
| Summary |
"This in-depth ethnographic study of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda, carried out over a decade, investigates how Rwandans grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of the violence. While Rwandans strive to be agents of change in a new era of modern nationhood, they are also devastated by the genocide and struggle to recover a sense of selfhood and belonging in the absence of kin, friends, and neighbors. The author explores the effect of this situation on ordinary lives, caught in global post-conflict imperatives to remember and to forget, to mourn and to prosper."--Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 04, 2022) |
| Subject |
Self -- Social aspects -- Rwanda -- Butare
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Collective memory -- Rwanda
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National characteristics, Rwandan.
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Reconciliation
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Rwandans.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Rwandans
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Collective memory
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National characteristics, Rwandan
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Peace
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Reconciliation
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Self -- Social aspects
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Peace
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Butare (Rwanda) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Rwanda
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Rwanda -- Butare
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017048429 |
| ISBN |
9781785337123 |
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1785337122 |
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