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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780242003321

Autore

Jefremovas Villia

Titolo

Brickyards to graveyards [[electronic resource] ] : from production to genocide in Rwanda / / Villia Jefremovas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

0-7914-8802-0

0-585-48922-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in the anthropology of work

Disciplina

338.4/766673/0967571

Soggetti

Labor - Rwanda

Working class - Rwanda

Genocide - Rwanda

Rwanda Economic conditions

Rwanda Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction-Rwanda and the Field Sites 1 -- 2 Making Bricks and Roof Tiles in Rwanda: Technology and Process 21 -- 3 Making Bricks and Roof Tiles in Rwanda: Labor Organization 35 -- 4 Land Tenure, Common Property, and Labor and Power: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Transformations 59 -- 5 "Your Patron Begets You": Household Reproduction, Gender and Domestic Relations, and Access to Family Labor 79 -- 6 Loose Women, Virtuous Wives, and Timid Virgins: Class, Gender, and the Control of Resources 97 -- 7 Brickyards Turn to Graveyards 109 --Appendix A. Various Chronologies for the Rwandan Kings 127 -- Appendix B. European Contact and the German Colonial Period 129 -- Appendix C. The Belgian Colonial Period 131 -- Appendix D. Prestations, Corvees, Taxes, and Obligations (1898-1940) 133.