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

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995

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Description xiv, 352 pages : maps ; 24 cm Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-344) and index Subject Hutu (African people) -- Tanzania -- Ethnic identity. Political refugees -- Burundi. Political refugees -- Tanzania. LC no. 94037099 ISBN 0226502716 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226502724 (paper : alk. paper)

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