| Included Work | Czekanowski, Jan, 1882-1965 Forschungen im Nil-Kongo-Zwischengebiet. Bd. 1, Ethnographie, Zwischenseengebiet Mpororo: Ruanda. Selections. English. |
| Included Work | Hove, Julien van Essai de Droit coutumier de Ruanda. English. |
| Included Work | Jefremovas, Villia. Loose women, virtuous wives, and timid virgins. |
| Included Work | Lemarchand, René Rwanda, the rationality of genocide. |
| Included Work | Longman, Timothy Paul Genocide and socio-political change. |
| Included Work | Longman, Timothy Paul Culture summary, Rwandans. |
| Included Work | Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946- Origins of Hutu and Tutsi. |
| Included Work | Maquet, Jacques Jérôme Pierre, 1919-2013. Kingdom of Ruanda. |
| Included Work | Maquet, Jacques Jérôme Pierre, 1919-2013. Premise of inequality in Ruanda. |
| Included Work | Newbury, Catharine. Cohesion of oppression. |
| Included Work | Newbury, Catharine. Background to genocide, Rwanda. |
| Included Work | Newbury, David S. Clans of Rwanda. |
| Included Work | Pagès, Georges, 1867-1939. Royaume hamite au centre de l'Afrique. English. |
| Included Work | Roscoe, John, 1861-1932. Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate. |
| Included Work | Taylor, Christopher C. (Christopher Charles). Harp that plays by itself. |
| Included Work | Taylor, Christopher C. (Christopher Charles). Mutton, mud, and runny noses. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series |
eHRAF world cultures
eHRAF world cultures. Africa. UNAUTHORIZED
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| Contents |
Investigations in the area between the Nile and the Congo : ethnography, the interlacustrine region of Mporo and Ruanda / Jan Czkanowski, translated by Frieda Schütze -- Essay on the common law of Ruanda / J. Vanhove, translated by Dorothy Crawford -- Loose women, virtuous wives, and timid virgins : gender and the control of resources in Rwanda / Villia Jefremovas -- Rwanda, the rationality of genocide / René Lemarchand -- Genocide and socio-political change, massacres in two Rwandan villages ; Culture summary, Rwandans / Timothy Longman -- Origins of Hutu and Tutsi / Mahmood Mamdani -- Kingdom of Ruanda ; Premise of inequality in Ruanda / Jacques J. Maquet -- Cohesion of oppression, clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960 ; Background to genocide, Rwanda / Catharine Newbury -- Clans of Rwanda / David S. Newbury -- Hamitic kingdom in the center of Africa / G. Pagés, translated by Bernard Scholl -- Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate / John Roscoe -- Harp that plays by itself ; Mutton, mud, and runny noses / Christopher C. Taylor. |
| Abstract |
This collection of fifteen documents covers historical, cultural, and economic information on the Rwandans, circa 1895 to 2004. The Rwandan culture has its roots in the precolonial kingdom of Rwanda and encompasses both the population of the modern state of Rwanda and speakers of the Kinyarwanda language in the neighboring Congo and Uganda. The basic and most comprehensive sources in the collection were compiled by the Belgian ethnologist Jacques Maquet in 1949-1957. Maquet discusses the processes and rules that structured Rwandan society into a caste-like political system consisting of cattle owning ruling elites, Tutsi, a farming majority, Hutu, and a forest dwelling hunting minority, Twa. However, his arguments are strongly challenged by the works of three scholars, Mamdani, Catharine Newbury, and David Newbury, who do not view ethnicity as a primordial identity. The collection also includes four documents which, together, provide the earliest available firsthand information on the Rwandans: Czekanowski, who, in 1907-1909, collected a wide variety of information relating to history, language, and arts in the Mpororo region; the now classic work of John Roscoe, a European clergy who traveled extensively in central Africa; and van Hove, a Belgian colonial administrator and lawyer. Two documents from Christopher Taylor deal with ethnomedicine and diet, and the remaining three deal with the nature of the violence that swept Rwanda in 1994. The Rwandans encompass groups presently known as the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Apr. 7, 2010). |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was first released in 2009. |
