Brickyards to graveyards : from production to genocide in Rwanda / Villia Jefremovas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jefremovas, Villia.

Series:

SUNY series in the anthropology of work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--Rwanda.

Labor.

Working class--Rwanda.

Working class.

Genocide--Rwanda.

Genocide.

Rwanda--Economic conditions.

Rwanda.

Rwanda--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Brickyards to Graveyards examines how the overidealized picture of Rwanda as the darling of the world community in the 1980s was shattered amidst the genocide that occurred a decade later. The brick and tile industries of Rwanda provide a microcosm to examine the transformation of gender, class, and power relations through the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods, and provide insights into the explosive impact of these changes on Rwandan culture and society. The book illustrates how these gender, class, and power relations played out in times of economic, political, and demographic crisis, and argues that these factors have not changed significantly since the Rwandan Patriotic Front took power in 1994.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

0-7914-8802-0

0-585-48922-X

OCLC:

461428726