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- Deo had grown up barefoot in Burundi, but for a peasant boy he had done well.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- He scouted the road a little, and from his hiding places he saw people in peasant clothes — local farmers, most likely — carrying logs on their shoulders down that road in the direction of Bujumbura.†
Chpt 1.9
- Sometimes they seemed like just a bunch of peasants running around with make-believe weapons.†
Chpt 1.9peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
- The case study that followed told of a Haitian peasant who had died from tuberculosis.†
Chpt 2.10
- While careful to say that no single factor can explain each country's violence, he tries to depict the essential settings of the slaughters — that is, the lives of the peasant majorities.†
Chpt 2.13
- And examples of what the peasant majority was being excluded from — portly men in suits, foreign development workers and their privileged Burundian and Rwandan counterparts riding through dirt towns in suvs.†
Chpt 2.13
- It was common among peasants in Rwanda and Burundi, who had little access to pharmacology but a lot of experience with pain.†
Chpt 2.14peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
- European colonists brought a myth with its own long history, a myth tailored to account for what looked to them like an anomaly: civilization in darkest Africa, kings and aristocracies and peasants, an advanced social order a little like Europe's.†
Chpt Hist
- The Belgians gave the ganwa and Tutsi chiefs considerable autonomy — to extract this forced labor, to collect taxes from the peasants (more than occasionally with whips and canes) — and many chiefs grossly abused their power.†
Chpt Hist
- The notion, for instance, that Rwandan peasants participated in mass violence because of their culture of obedience: "This is the same population that spends an inordinate amount of time and energy disobeying the messages that come from above," writes Uvin.†
Chpt Hist
- What Uvin calls "the development enterprise," far from improving the lives of the majority, increased inequality and fostered "prejudice, humiliation, and infantilization" among the peasant majority.†
Chpt Hist
Definitions:
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(1)
(peasant) used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing -- especially one who raises crops or livestock
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)