Peaceful Selves : : Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda / / Laura Eramian.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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