Brickyards to Graveyards, livre ebook

Explores how the conditions that shaped Rwanda's labor organization and industries also shaped Rwanda's genocide.

Explores how the conditions that shaped Rwanda's labor organization and industries also shaped Rwanda's genocide.

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 Front took power in 1994.

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations and Tables
1. Introduction—Rwanda and the Field Sites
2. Making Bricks and Roof Tiles in Rwanda: Technology and Process
3. Making Bricks and Roof Tiles in Rwanda: Labor Organization
4. Land Tenure, Common Property, and Labor and Power: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Transformations
5. "Your Patron Begets You": Household Reproduction, Gender and Domestic Relations, and Access to Family Labor
6. Loose Women, Virtuous Wives, and Timid Virgins: Class, Gender, and the Control of Resources
7. Brickyards Turn to Graveyards
Appendix A. Various Chronologies for the Rwandan Kings
Appendix B. European Contact and the German Colonial Period
Appendix C. The Belgian Colonial Period1
Appendix D. Prestations, Corvées, Taxes, and Obligations (1898–1940)
Notes
Bibliography
Index