Memorie vs memoriali: conflitti di attestazione e territori del trauma nel Rwanda del post-genocidio

Abstract

Based on ethnographic research in post-genocide Rwanda, this article analyzes two different approaches to the Politics of Memory in Rwanda:  the “living memory” in the José Kagabo’s   experience and the “duty of memory “ in the official memorializations. The institutionalization of the rwandan memorial sites provides a narrative  of the massacres through the places,  showing  limits and contradictions about of a new national story telling .

Keywords

• memory
• witness
• post-genocide
• museum
• rwanda
• anthropology
• history