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.
Verfasser
Call numberP967.57104/001
Inventarnummer10331
ErscheinungsortSydney, New South Wales, Australia
VerlagEquinox Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
MaterialLoseblattsammlung
NotesArticle from the journal 'Implicit Religious'
Beschreibung
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.