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Purity and Exile
Language: en
Pages: 380
Authors: Liisa H. Malkki
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-08-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This book explores how categories of identity such as "Hutu" and "Tuts" produced through violence and exile. In 1972 the Burundi army, controlled by t Tutsis, r
The Need to Help
Language: en
Pages: 227
Authors: Liisa H. Malkki
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-03 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropologica
Improvising Theory
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Allaine Cerwonka
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Scholars have long recognized that ethnographic method is bound up with the construction of theory in ways that are difficult to teach. The reason, Allaine Cerw
Fatal Purity
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Ruth Scurr
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-17 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Scurr tracks Robespierre's evolution from lawyer to revolutionary leader. This is a fascinatin
Shards of Love
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: MarĂ­a Rosa Menocal
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval
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