Purity and Exile
Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
Acknowledgments
Maps
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
Notes
References
Index
Royal Anthropological Institute: Amaury Talbot Prize
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