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The transformation of lieux de mémoire : The Nyabarongo River in Rwanda, 1992–2009
Author(s) -
Meierhenrich Jens
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00687.x
Subject(s) - genocide , deconstruction (building) , collective memory , history , archaeology , humanities , art , law , political science , engineering , waste management
This article takes the Nyabarongo river as a lens through which to tentatively reflect on the transformation of lieux de memoire in post‐genocide Rwanda in the period 1992–2009. It is culled from a larger, multi‐year project on the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of collective memory in Rwanda that revolves around a systematic, historical, and spatial analysis of the hundreds of genocide memorials, informal and otherwise, that have been created — and some that have disappeared — in the last fifteen years.