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Re: Rwandan Ethnographies
ray scupin (scupin@LC.LINDENWOOD.EDU)
Thu, 10 Nov 1994 11:31:44 -0600
There is also a good brief historical and ethnographic sketch of the
Rwandan situation in the New York Review of Books, October 20.
Ray Scupin
On Thu, 10 Nov 1994, T Kohn wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Nov 1994, Rob Prince wrote:
>
> > A student of mine is soon headed for Rwanda as part of the relief effort
> > there. Any good ethnographic (or other) citations people might recommend
> > would be appreciated.
> >
>
>
> You might try the recent book by Catherine Newbury, The Cohesion of
> Oppression: Clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960, NY: Columbia
> UP. Also, Ian Linden's Church and Revolution in Rwanda (1977) - Both are
> discussed in a good anthro review article by Alex De Waal in the TLS,
> July 1, 1994, called "The Genocidal State: Hutu extremism and the origins
> of the 'final solution' in Rwanda".
> Hope that helps.
>
> Tamara Kohn
> Univ. of Durham, UK
>
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