Peaceful Selves : Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda /

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This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 199...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eramian, Laura (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]
Temas:
Collective memory > Rwanda.
Collective memory.
National characteristics, Rwandan.
Peace.
Reconciliation.
Self > Social aspects > Rwanda > Butare.
Self > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Bürgerkrieg
Gewaltlosigkeit
Individuum
Konflikt
Politisches Verhalten
Sozialverhalten
Stadt
Völkermord
Auswirkung
Lebensstil
Gewalttätigkeit
Wirkung
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
1990s world history.
biographical.
ethnographic.
ethnography.
mourn.
murdered.
nationhood.
personhood.
post conflict society.
prosper.
psychology.
recovery.
rhetoric.
rwanda genocide.
rwandans.
selfhood.
small town.
social life.
sociology.
victims of violence.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Person, Nation, and Violence in Rwanda
  • 1. The Post-Conflict Moment in Butare and Its Antecedents
  • 2. Ethnicity's Specter in Post-Ethnic Times
  • 3. Living with Absence
  • 4. Creativity, Positive Thinking, and Their Perils
  • 5. Making Peace by Remaking Persons
  • Conclusion: The Post-Conflict, the Postcolonial, and Peaceful Selves
  • Glossary of Kinyarwanda terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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