From War to Peace on the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland
«A valuable contribution to the literature on contemporary Mozambique as well as an innovative ethnography of a war, its antecedents, and its aftermath. an exceptionally rich study! Englund's central achievement is to provide a nuanced and complex sense of what the process of war and displacement was really about. Those who saw the difference at the time of the Mozambican civil war between the Malawian side - teeming with life - and the Mozambican side - eerily empty except for some destroyed structures - will pick up this book eagerly in an attempt to understand what they saw. They will not be disappointed! Englund shows himself a deft ethnographer in his analysis of kinship! [the book's] main strength is the careful observation of everyday life. A valuable contribution to the literature on contemporary Mozambique as well as an innovative ethnography of a war, its antecedents, and its aftermath. an exceptionally rich study! Englund's central achievement is to provide a nuanced and complex sense of what the process of war and displacement was really about. Those who saw the difference at the time of the Mozambican civil war between the Malawian side - teeming with life - and the Mozambican side - eerily empty except for some destroyed structures - will pick up this book eagerly in an attempt to understand what they saw. They will not be disappointed! Englund shows himself a deft ethnographer in his analysis of kinship! [the book's] main strength is the careful observation of everyday life.»
From War to Peace on the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland is the first full-length ethnography to tell villagers' stories from war to peace in Mozambique. Extended case studies of particular villages and families on the Mozambique-Malawi borderland form the core of the book. Les mer
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Those interested in humanitarian catastrophes, African politics, refugee studies and development studies will be inspired by its detailed rebuttal of stereotypes which continue to represent Africans as helpless victims.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Edinburgh University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780748615773
- Utgivelsesår
- 2001
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«A valuable contribution to the literature on contemporary Mozambique as well as an innovative ethnography of a war, its antecedents, and its aftermath. an exceptionally rich study! Englund's central achievement is to provide a nuanced and complex sense of what the process of war and displacement was really about. Those who saw the difference at the time of the Mozambican civil war between the Malawian side - teeming with life - and the Mozambican side - eerily empty except for some destroyed structures - will pick up this book eagerly in an attempt to understand what they saw. They will not be disappointed! Englund shows himself a deft ethnographer in his analysis of kinship! [the book's] main strength is the careful observation of everyday life. A valuable contribution to the literature on contemporary Mozambique as well as an innovative ethnography of a war, its antecedents, and its aftermath. an exceptionally rich study! Englund's central achievement is to provide a nuanced and complex sense of what the process of war and displacement was really about. Those who saw the difference at the time of the Mozambican civil war between the Malawian side - teeming with life - and the Mozambican side - eerily empty except for some destroyed structures - will pick up this book eagerly in an attempt to understand what they saw. They will not be disappointed! Englund shows himself a deft ethnographer in his analysis of kinship! [the book's] main strength is the careful observation of everyday life.»