Brickyards to graveyards
Subtitle: from production to genocide in Rwanda
By: Villia Jefremovas
Series: SUNY series in the anthropology of work
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780791454886; 9780791454879
Subjects: Rwanda; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Genocide; Working class; Labor
Description: "Brickyards to Graveyards examines how the overidealized picture of Rwanda as the darling of the world community in the 1980s was shattered amidst the genocide that occurred a decade later. The brick and tile industries of Rwanda provide a microcosm to examine the transformation of gender, class, and power relations through the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods, and provide insights into the explosive impact of these changes on Rwandan culture and society.

The book illustrates how these gender, class, and power relations played out in times of economic, political, and demographic crisis, and argues that these factors have not changed significantly since the Rwandan Patriotic took power in 1994."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction-Rwanda and the field sites; title: Making bricks and roof tiles in Rwanda: technology and process; title: Making bricks and roof tiles in Rwanda: labor organization; title: Land tenure, common property, and labor and power: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial transformations; title: "Your patron begets you": household reproduction, gender and domestic relations, and access to family labor; title: Loose women, virtuous wives, and timid virgins: class, gender, and the control of resources; title: Brickyards turn to graveyards.