Christopher C Taylor
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1708658 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christopher C Taylor |
| NOMBRES | Christopher C |
| APELLIDO | Taylor |
| FIRMA | TAYLOR C C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 144 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Sacrific as Terror
In the early months of 1994, it became clear that the government of Rwanda had not acted in good faith in signing peace accords with its adversary, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Acts of government-sponsored violence grew more frequent. The author of this book, who at that point was conducting fieldwork in Rwanda, on several occasions found either himself or the Rwandans accompanying him threatened with, or sustaining, bodily harm. Finally, active …
Mass violence, trauma, and their children
This article concerns the social construction of collective memory particularly with regard to the social remembering of mass violence and trauma. How do individual memories of mass violence which are often idiosyncratic, nonverbal, and embodied coalesce and crystallize into coherent narratives shared by a group. The books reviewed here demonstrate that there are both discursive means of remembering and non-discursive means of remembering. Social…
Genocide and the Religious Imaginary in Rwanda
This chapter, which concentrates on the violent imaginaries that informed the reports and deeds of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, reviews the perseverance of pre-colonial notions of a sacred king whose “wild sovereignty” and inability to promote the flow of imaana earns him fateful sacrifice. The term imaana denotes a supreme being and, in a more generalized way, a “diffuse, fecundating fluid” of celestial origin whose activity upon livestock, land, …
Sacrifício rei, estado ruandês e genocídio
Em contraste com as análises do genocídio ruandês de 1994, que privilegiam o político, este artigo sustenta que o poder e a política durante o tempo que precedeu o genocídio foram afetadas por noções ruandesas específicas de cosmologia e ontologia. Para entender esse componente "imaginário" da violência, precisamos examinar atentamente as crenças e práticas relacionadas com a instituição da realeza sagrada em Ruanda. Embora essas crenças e prátic…
Molders of Mud
When discussing the politics of ethnicity in Rwanda, most authors discount the role of Twa. Because the latter are Rwanda's least numerous ethnic group, the tendency is to dismiss their importance. This dismissal may seem justified in instrumental terms, but it is not true in symbolic terms. Twa were the first of Rwanda's three ethnicities to suffer stigmatization, and this predated European colonialism by several centuries. If we think about eth…
Mutton, Mud, and Runny Noses
When Rwandan ethnicities are discussed, one seldom hears of the country’s least numerous group, the Twa, who constitute less than 1 percent of the present- day population. Despite this, long before ethnic division arose between Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda, a great social divide separated Twa from non-Twa. Twa were the first group to have suffered discrimination at the hands of others. Local practices of social exclusion based upon notions of esteem …
More Power to You, or Should it be Less
If anthropology is in need of a lesson against reductionism, it would appear that no longer is it in need of one against reification, for this is more often the logical flaw that contemporary anthropologists strive hardest and most consciously to avoid. Yet for all the merits of the critique against reification, it has its downside: it renders us less sensitive to the dangers of reductionism. Quite frequently today the charge of reification is le…
Kings or Presidents? War and the State in Pre- and Post-Genocidal Rwanda
For theorists of the state and war inspired by Michel Foucault, the central issue is power. For Foucault there is no individual subject constructed in the absence of power, and no social institution that does not bear the imprint of historical struggles over power (Foucault 1979). With power so pervasively infusing human experience, there appears to be little need of talking about anything else. Power is everywhere. History is the chronicle of th…
Dual Systems in Rwanda
The Rwandan social system has habitually been depicted as something of a 'dual system' in which Tutsi are opposed to Hutu. Forgotten in this description are the country's least numerous group, the Twa. Although Twa constitute less than 1 per cent of Rwanda's total population and thus appear to be politically negligible, this article maintains that they were historically more important in the symbolic construction of ethnic difference than the pre…
Taylor on Melvern
Reviewed by: A People Betrayed: the role of the West in Rwanda’s genocide Christopher C. Taylor Linda Melvern, A People Betrayed: the role of the West in Rwanda’s genocide (London: Zed Books, 2000) This is an excellent book, thoroughly researched, and despite numerous misprints, very well-written. The story is a profoundly tragic one, one with a nauseating surfeit of villains, very few heroes, and close to a million Rwandan victims, many of whom …
Cultures of Insecurity
Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger. Jutta Weldes. Mark Laffey. Hugh Gusterson. and Raymond Duvall. eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. vii. 432 pp., bibliography, index
A Gendered Genocide
The United Nations and Rwanda 1993-96
Chronology of events relating to Rwanda. 24 September 1993, the secretary-General submits a report to the Security Council recommending the establishment of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) with 2,500 troops. 6 January 1994, the Security Council adopts a resolution, authorizing deployment of the second infantry battalion. 5 April 1994, the Security Council adopts resolution extending UNAMIR's mandate until 29 July 1994. 6…
Purity and Exile
Milk, Honey, and Money
Milk, Honey, and Money
Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda . Benjamin C. RAY
Medieval rural settlement
Power and Performance
This article explores the intersection of power and performance in Shaba, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), through an analysis of proverbial wisdom and theatrical practices. The authors argue that proverbs, often seen as static expressions of traditional values, are actively employed and manipulated in everyday social interactions to negotiate power dynamics. They examine how proverbs are strategically deployed in different contexts, inc…
The harp that plays by itself
1991). The harp that plays by itself. Medical Anthropology: Vol. 13, Recent Trends in Ethnomedicine, pp. 99-119
Condoms and cosmology
The origins of dispersed settlement; some results from fieldwork in Bedfordshire
(1989). The origins of dispersed settlement; some results from fieldwork in Bedfordshire. Landscape History: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 61-81
The concept of flow in Rwandan popular medicine
Power and Performance
This article explores the intersection of power and performance in Shaba, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), through an analysis of proverbial wisdom and theatrical practices. The authors argue that proverbs, often seen as static expressions of traditional values, are actively employed and manipulated in everyday social interactions to negotiate power dynamics. They examine how proverbs are strategically deployed in different contexts, inc…
Condoms and cosmology
The concept of flow in Rwandan popular medicine
A Gendered Genocide
The harp that plays by itself
1991). The harp that plays by itself. Medical Anthropology: Vol. 13, Recent Trends in Ethnomedicine, pp. 99-119
Molders of Mud
When discussing the politics of ethnicity in Rwanda, most authors discount the role of Twa. Because the latter are Rwanda's least numerous ethnic group, the tendency is to dismiss their importance. This dismissal may seem justified in instrumental terms, but it is not true in symbolic terms. Twa were the first of Rwanda's three ethnicities to suffer stigmatization, and this predated European colonialism by several centuries. If we think about eth…
Cultures of Insecurity
Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger. Jutta Weldes. Mark Laffey. Hugh Gusterson. and Raymond Duvall. eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. vii. 432 pp., bibliography, index
Milk, Honey, and Money
Sacrifício rei, estado ruandês e genocídio
Em contraste com as análises do genocídio ruandês de 1994, que privilegiam o político, este artigo sustenta que o poder e a política durante o tempo que precedeu o genocídio foram afetadas por noções ruandesas específicas de cosmologia e ontologia. Para entender esse componente "imaginário" da violência, precisamos examinar atentamente as crenças e práticas relacionadas com a instituição da realeza sagrada em Ruanda. Embora essas crenças e prátic…
Dual Systems in Rwanda
The Rwandan social system has habitually been depicted as something of a 'dual system' in which Tutsi are opposed to Hutu. Forgotten in this description are the country's least numerous group, the Twa. Although Twa constitute less than 1 per cent of Rwanda's total population and thus appear to be politically negligible, this article maintains that they were historically more important in the symbolic construction of ethnic difference than the pre…
Mass violence, trauma, and their children
This article concerns the social construction of collective memory particularly with regard to the social remembering of mass violence and trauma. How do individual memories of mass violence which are often idiosyncratic, nonverbal, and embodied coalesce and crystallize into coherent narratives shared by a group. The books reviewed here demonstrate that there are both discursive means of remembering and non-discursive means of remembering. Social…
The origins of dispersed settlement; some results from fieldwork in Bedfordshire
(1989). The origins of dispersed settlement; some results from fieldwork in Bedfordshire. Landscape History: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 61-81
The concept of flow in Rwandan popular medicine
The origins of dispersed settlement; some results from fieldwork in Bedfordshire
(1989). The origins of dispersed settlement; some results from fieldwork in Bedfordshire. Landscape History: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 61-81
Condoms and cosmology
The harp that plays by itself
1991). The harp that plays by itself. Medical Anthropology: Vol. 13, Recent Trends in Ethnomedicine, pp. 99-119
Medieval rural settlement
Power and Performance
This article explores the intersection of power and performance in Shaba, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), through an analysis of proverbial wisdom and theatrical practices. The authors argue that proverbs, often seen as static expressions of traditional values, are actively employed and manipulated in everyday social interactions to negotiate power dynamics. They examine how proverbs are strategically deployed in different contexts, inc…
Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda . Benjamin C. RAY
Milk, Honey, and Money
Milk, Honey, and Money
Purity and Exile
The United Nations and Rwanda 1993-96
Chronology of events relating to Rwanda. 24 September 1993, the secretary-General submits a report to the Security Council recommending the establishment of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) with 2,500 troops. 6 January 1994, the Security Council adopts a resolution, authorizing deployment of the second infantry battalion. 5 April 1994, the Security Council adopts resolution extending UNAMIR's mandate until 29 July 1994. 6…
A Gendered Genocide
Taylor on Melvern
Reviewed by: A People Betrayed: the role of the West in Rwanda’s genocide Christopher C. Taylor Linda Melvern, A People Betrayed: the role of the West in Rwanda’s genocide (London: Zed Books, 2000) This is an excellent book, thoroughly researched, and despite numerous misprints, very well-written. The story is a profoundly tragic one, one with a nauseating surfeit of villains, very few heroes, and close to a million Rwandan victims, many of whom …
Cultures of Insecurity
Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger. Jutta Weldes. Mark Laffey. Hugh Gusterson. and Raymond Duvall. eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. vii. 432 pp., bibliography, index
More Power to You, or Should it be Less
If anthropology is in need of a lesson against reductionism, it would appear that no longer is it in need of one against reification, for this is more often the logical flaw that contemporary anthropologists strive hardest and most consciously to avoid. Yet for all the merits of the critique against reification, it has its downside: it renders us less sensitive to the dangers of reductionism. Quite frequently today the charge of reification is le…
Kings or Presidents? War and the State in Pre- and Post-Genocidal Rwanda
For theorists of the state and war inspired by Michel Foucault, the central issue is power. For Foucault there is no individual subject constructed in the absence of power, and no social institution that does not bear the imprint of historical struggles over power (Foucault 1979). With power so pervasively infusing human experience, there appears to be little need of talking about anything else. Power is everywhere. History is the chronicle of th…
Dual Systems in Rwanda
The Rwandan social system has habitually been depicted as something of a 'dual system' in which Tutsi are opposed to Hutu. Forgotten in this description are the country's least numerous group, the Twa. Although Twa constitute less than 1 per cent of Rwanda's total population and thus appear to be politically negligible, this article maintains that they were historically more important in the symbolic construction of ethnic difference than the pre…
Mutton, Mud, and Runny Noses
When Rwandan ethnicities are discussed, one seldom hears of the country’s least numerous group, the Twa, who constitute less than 1 percent of the present- day population. Despite this, long before ethnic division arose between Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda, a great social divide separated Twa from non-Twa. Twa were the first group to have suffered discrimination at the hands of others. Local practices of social exclusion based upon notions of esteem …
Sacrifício rei, estado ruandês e genocídio
Em contraste com as análises do genocídio ruandês de 1994, que privilegiam o político, este artigo sustenta que o poder e a política durante o tempo que precedeu o genocídio foram afetadas por noções ruandesas específicas de cosmologia e ontologia. Para entender esse componente "imaginário" da violência, precisamos examinar atentamente as crenças e práticas relacionadas com a instituição da realeza sagrada em Ruanda. Embora essas crenças e prátic…
Molders of Mud
When discussing the politics of ethnicity in Rwanda, most authors discount the role of Twa. Because the latter are Rwanda's least numerous ethnic group, the tendency is to dismiss their importance. This dismissal may seem justified in instrumental terms, but it is not true in symbolic terms. Twa were the first of Rwanda's three ethnicities to suffer stigmatization, and this predated European colonialism by several centuries. If we think about eth…
Genocide and the Religious Imaginary in Rwanda
This chapter, which concentrates on the violent imaginaries that informed the reports and deeds of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, reviews the perseverance of pre-colonial notions of a sacred king whose “wild sovereignty” and inability to promote the flow of imaana earns him fateful sacrifice. The term imaana denotes a supreme being and, in a more generalized way, a “diffuse, fecundating fluid” of celestial origin whose activity upon livestock, land, …
Mass violence, trauma, and their children
This article concerns the social construction of collective memory particularly with regard to the social remembering of mass violence and trauma. How do individual memories of mass violence which are often idiosyncratic, nonverbal, and embodied coalesce and crystallize into coherent narratives shared by a group. The books reviewed here demonstrate that there are both discursive means of remembering and non-discursive means of remembering. Social…
Sacrific as Terror
In the early months of 1994, it became clear that the government of Rwanda had not acted in good faith in signing peace accords with its adversary, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Acts of government-sponsored violence grew more frequent. The author of this book, who at that point was conducting fieldwork in Rwanda, on several occasions found either himself or the Rwandans accompanying him threatened with, or sustaining, bodily harm. Finally, active …
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