The transformation of lieux de mémoire: the Nyabarongo River in Rwanda, 1992-2009
Meierhenrich, J.
(2009).
The transformation of lieux de mémoire: the Nyabarongo River in Rwanda, 1992-2009.
Anthropology Today,
25(5), 13-19.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00687.x
(2009).
The transformation of lieux de mémoire: the Nyabarongo River in Rwanda, 1992-2009.
Anthropology Today,
25(5), 13-19.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00687.x
This article takes the Nyabarongo river as a lens through which to tentatively reflect on the transformation of lieux de memoire in post-genocide Rwanda in the period 1992–2009. It is culled from a larger, multi-year project on the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of collective memory in Rwanda that revolves around a systematic, historical, and spatial analysis of the hundreds of genocide memorials, informal and otherwise, that have been created - and some that have disappeared - in the last fifteen years.