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Cattle, identity and genocide in the African Great Lakes region

Author(s) -

Andrew Reid

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

archaeology international

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2048-4194

pISSN - 1463-1725

DOI - 10.5334/ai.0412

Subject(s) - genocide , indigenous , colonialism , identity (music) , ethnic group , ethnology , geography , politics , agriculture , anthropology , archaeology , history , gender studies , political science , sociology , ecology , law , art , biology , aesthetics

Archaeological research into the origins of the cattle-keeping people of southwestern Uganda has overturned long-held beliefs about the separate origins of the pastoral and agricultural populations of the region. Study of indigenous political development and nineteenth-century colonialism shows that the present-day ethnic identities, which fuelled the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, are recent constructions

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