fetishization effect: the manipulation power of the Machete in the Rwandan Genocide.
TitelThe fetishization effect: the manipulation power of the Machete in the Rwandan Genocide.
Forfatter
Call numberP967.57104/001
Objektnummer10331
UdgivelsesstedSydney, New South Wales, Australia
UdgiverEquinox Publishing
Udgivelsesår
2018
MaterialeLoose-leaf
NoterArticle from the journal 'Implicit Religious'
Beskrivelse
The author explores the phenomenon of the 'fetishization' effect of the machete during the Rwandan genocide. By imparting an almost divine identity to the inanimate machete,Hutu murderers were encouraged to feel absolved from their crimes of violence towards their Tutsi victims.