To Save Heaven and Earth
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To Save Heaven and Earth

Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide

Jennie E. Burnet

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To Save Heaven and Earth

Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide

Jennie E. Burnet

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In To Save Heaven and Earth, Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi to try and save those targeted for killing. Many genocide perpetrators were not motivated by political ideology, ethnic hatred, or prejudice. By shifting away from these classic typologies of genocide studies and focusing instead on hundreds of thousands of discrete acts that unfold over time, Burnet highlights the ways that complex decisions and behaviors emerge in the social, political, and economic processes that constitute a genocide.

To Save Heaven and Earth explores external factors, such as geography, local power dynamics, and genocide timelines, as well as the internal states of mind and motivations of those who effected rescues. Framed within the interdisciplinary scholarship of genocide studies and rooted in cultural anthropology methodologies, this book presents stories of heroism and of the good done amid the evil of a genocide that nearly annihilated Rwandan Tutsi and decimated the Hutu and Twa who were opposed to the slaughter.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781501767128
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Anthropologie culturelle et sociale

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APA 6 Citation

Burnet, J. (2023). To Save Heaven and Earth ([edition unavailable]). Cornell University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3267055 (Original work published 2023)

Chicago Citation

Burnet, Jennie. (2023) 2023. To Save Heaven and Earth. [Edition unavailable]. Cornell University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/3267055.

Harvard Citation

Burnet, J. (2023) To Save Heaven and Earth. [edition unavailable]. Cornell University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3267055 (Accessed: 16 June 2024).

MLA 7 Citation

Burnet, Jennie. To Save Heaven and Earth. [edition unavailable]. Cornell University Press, 2023. Web. 16 June 2024.