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.
Författare
Call numberP967.57104/001
Objektnummer10331
PubliceringsortSydney, New South Wales, Australia
UtgivareEquinox Publishing
Publikationsår
2018
MaterialLoose-leaf
NotesArticle from the journal 'Implicit Religious'
Beskrivning
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.