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Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; A Glimpse into the World of Itorero; Ethnographic Spaces; Paths of Inquiry; Contemporary Research on Rwanda; Leta: The Rwandan State; Intore: The Model Rwandan Citizen; Toward an Anthropology of Authoritarianism?; Authoritarian Modes of Government as Modern-Day Governmentality; Rationalities and Technologies: Tracing the Liberal in the Authoritarian; Experiences of Exposure; Looking Beyond the Self and the State; Chapter Outline; References; Chapter 2: Itorero Today and Yesterday: Making and Remaking Rwanda
Precolonial Rwanda: "The Surface Occupied by a Swarm or a Scattering" Colonial Rwanda: Of "Hamites" and "Bantu"; Independence: From Race to Ethnicity; The War, the Genocide, and its Aftermath; Post-Conflict Interventions at Home and Abroad; Toward a New Political Culture; Itorero ry'Igihugu: Objectives, Structure, and Implementation; Itorero ry'Igihugu for Special Target Groups; Itorero ry'Igihugu in Schools; Itorero ry'Igihugu in the Neighborhoods and Villages; Civic Education in Rwanda; Itorero, the Child of Ingando; Summary; References
Chapter 3: Rwanda and Rwandans in the Post-Genocide Political ImaginaryThe Royal Legacy: Key Norms in Rwandan Historicity; Narrating Rwanda's History: A Story of Three Eras; The Golden Era; The Dark Ages; The Renaissance; The Soldier Identity: Military Heritage in the Historical Narrative; Roots of the Soldier Identity; The Genocide as the "Battle We Won"; Mono-Ethnicism as Symbol of National Unity; The RPF as Norm; Modernity in Focus: Intore as Breaking with the Past; Defining the New Model Citizen: King, Rebel, and "Family" Member; Crisis of Memory; Fetishizing the State
Intore: A Citizen and Subject Defining Autochthony, Silencing the New Other; Summary; References; Chapter 4: Local Voices on Rwanda and Rwandans; On Testimony and the Persons Giving It; "How We Lived Before"; The Genocide, the War, the Liberation Struggle; Life After 1994: "Reconciliation"; "Rwandanness" and Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa; Itorero ry'Igihugu, a Leadership Initiative; The Many Sources of an "Invented Tradition"; National Diversity and State Power; Summary; References; Chapter 5: Model Citizens in the Making: Government as Designed; Ritual Transformation for Mindset Change
A Dialogue Premised on SilenceTeaching Through Disciplining; Striving for the Aesthetics of Mindset Change; Itorero as a Micro Cosmos of Rwandan Governmentality; Ceremony and Ritual in Context; A Superstructure of Bureaucratic Regulation; Contractual Participation: Norms and Practices of Good Governance; Formulating Development Objectives: Notes from the Neighborhood; Community Work: Mobilizing the Masses for Sensitization and Work; Neighborhood Volunteers: Making Reality of Development Goals; Implications of Bureaucracy and Ritual; Summary; References
Precolonial Rwanda: "The Surface Occupied by a Swarm or a Scattering" Colonial Rwanda: Of "Hamites" and "Bantu"; Independence: From Race to Ethnicity; The War, the Genocide, and its Aftermath; Post-Conflict Interventions at Home and Abroad; Toward a New Political Culture; Itorero ry'Igihugu: Objectives, Structure, and Implementation; Itorero ry'Igihugu for Special Target Groups; Itorero ry'Igihugu in Schools; Itorero ry'Igihugu in the Neighborhoods and Villages; Civic Education in Rwanda; Itorero, the Child of Ingando; Summary; References
Chapter 3: Rwanda and Rwandans in the Post-Genocide Political ImaginaryThe Royal Legacy: Key Norms in Rwandan Historicity; Narrating Rwanda's History: A Story of Three Eras; The Golden Era; The Dark Ages; The Renaissance; The Soldier Identity: Military Heritage in the Historical Narrative; Roots of the Soldier Identity; The Genocide as the "Battle We Won"; Mono-Ethnicism as Symbol of National Unity; The RPF as Norm; Modernity in Focus: Intore as Breaking with the Past; Defining the New Model Citizen: King, Rebel, and "Family" Member; Crisis of Memory; Fetishizing the State
Intore: A Citizen and Subject Defining Autochthony, Silencing the New Other; Summary; References; Chapter 4: Local Voices on Rwanda and Rwandans; On Testimony and the Persons Giving It; "How We Lived Before"; The Genocide, the War, the Liberation Struggle; Life After 1994: "Reconciliation"; "Rwandanness" and Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa; Itorero ry'Igihugu, a Leadership Initiative; The Many Sources of an "Invented Tradition"; National Diversity and State Power; Summary; References; Chapter 5: Model Citizens in the Making: Government as Designed; Ritual Transformation for Mindset Change
A Dialogue Premised on SilenceTeaching Through Disciplining; Striving for the Aesthetics of Mindset Change; Itorero as a Micro Cosmos of Rwandan Governmentality; Ceremony and Ritual in Context; A Superstructure of Bureaucratic Regulation; Contractual Participation: Norms and Practices of Good Governance; Formulating Development Objectives: Notes from the Neighborhood; Community Work: Mobilizing the Masses for Sensitization and Work; Neighborhood Volunteers: Making Reality of Development Goals; Implications of Bureaucracy and Ritual; Summary; References