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AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF TESTIMONY Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. By LIISA H. MALKKI. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xiv + 352. £17.25 (ISBN 0-226-50272-4).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

DAVID NEWBURY
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Abstract

An estimated seven million people live as refugees in Africa today. While reports on refugee services abound, there are few studies of internal cultural dynamics among the displaced. This book is pre-eminent among these, with its insights the more urgent given the horrific recent increase in refugees in East Central Africa.

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© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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