Peaceful Selves

Peaceful SelvesThis 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 1994 genocide, from cultural contradictions around good personhood, and from both state and popular visions for the future. What emerges is a profound

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and experienced—provides the spatial domain that mirrors change and allows for an interrogation of the “real” city as it encountered modernity over the course of a century

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illuminating ways that girls' voices are often silenced in schools and society

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