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Complexities and dangers of remembering and forgetting in Rwanda /
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 di...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Sidestone Press,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Nyirubugara, Olivier. Memory traps ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789088901607 9088901600 1299559069 9781299559066 |