In this study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, Liisa Malkki shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct identities such as "Hutu" and "Tutsi."Through extensive fieldwork in two refugee communities, Malkki finds that the refugees' current circumstances significantly influence these…
Author: Liisa H. Malkki · Original publisher: University of Chicago Press (1995)
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