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PURITY AND EXILE VIOLENCE MEMORY AND NATIONAL COSMOLOGY AMONG HUTU REFUGEES IN TANZANIA Download Purity And Exile Violence Memory And National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees In Tanzania ebook PDF or Read Online books in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format.

Drivers joystick tech mobility detroit. Extract Abstract: Cyprian’s period of exile threatened his episcopal authority and provoked great controversy within his church. To explain this situation, the bishop drew upon exilic topoi to defend his flight, to counter the support for an elite church defined by martyrs and confessors, and to establish the attitudes and behaviors necessary to protect church boundaries. Within a century after the death of Cyprian of Carthage, Christian writers regularly lauded the bishop as a model of Christian virtue. His prudent leadership, literary skill, and theological acumen were all traits that contributed, according to his hagiographers, to his worldwide reputation for wisdom and eloquence.

Author by: Liisa H. Malkki Languange: en Publisher by: University of Chicago Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 22 Total Download: 378 File Size: 47,6 Mb Description: 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 constructions. Those living in organized camps created an elaborate 'mythico-history' of the Hutu people, which gave significance to exile, and envisioned a collective return to the homeland of Burundi. Other refugees, who had assimilated in a more urban setting, crafted identities in response to the practical circumstances of their day to day lives.

Malkki reveals how such things as national identity, historical consciousness, and the social imagination of 'enemies' get constructed in the process of everyday life. The book closes with an epilogue looking at the recent violence between Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi, and showing how the movement of large refugee populations across national borders has shaped patterns of violence in the region. Author by: Professor Mary Douglas Languange: en Publisher by: Routledge Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 34 Total Download: 714 File Size: 48,6 Mb Description: Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of application, rebuttal and development within anthropology. In 1995 the book was included among the Times Literary Supplement's hundred most influential non-fiction works since WWII.

Incorporating the philosophy of religion and science and a generally holistic approach to classification, Douglas demonstrates the relevance of anthropological enquiries to an audience outside her immediate academic circle. She offers an approach to understanding rules of purity by examining what is considered unclean in various cultures. She sheds light on the symbolism of what is considered clean and dirty in relation to order in secular and religious, modern and primitive life. Treaure island 1950 torrent.

Author by: David A. DeSilva Languange: en Publisher by: InterVarsity Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 83 Total Download: 788 File Size: 49,9 Mb Description: Contemporary Western readers may find it surprising that honor and shame, patronage and reciprocity, kinship and family, and purity and pollution offer us keys to interpreting the New Testament. But as recent scholarship has proposed and as David deSilva demonstrates, paying attention to these cultural themes opens our eyes and ears to new discoveries and deeper understanding. Through our understanding of honor and shame in the Mediterranean world, we gain new appreciation of the way in which the personhood of early Christians connected with group values. By examining the protocols of patronage and reciprocity, we more firmly grasp the meaning of God's grace--and our response has fresh meaning. In exploring the ethos of kinship and household relations, we enlarge our perspective on the early Christian communities that met in houses and functioned as a new family or 'household' of God. And by investigating the notions of purity and pollution along with their associated practices, we come to realize how the ancient 'map' of society and the world was revised by the power of the gospel.