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Author Wiegink, Nikkie, author.

Title Former guerrillas in Mozambique / Nikkie Wiegink
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : maps
Series The ethnography of political violence
Ethnography of political violence.
Contents Introduction -- War Stories -- When Elephants Fight -- Wartime Kin and Wartime Husbands -- Navigating the Supernatural World -- Why Did the Soldiers Not Return Home? -- About Eating and Drinking -- "Only a Bit Mozambican" -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Glossary
Summary "This ethnography is about the war and postwar trajectories of ex-Renamo combatants in central Mozambique. It is about male and female veterans and their attempts to secure a tolerable life for themselves within the difficult social, political, and economic situation in Maringue"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Maringue
Renamo
United Nations demobilization
central Mozambique
former combatants
guerrila warfare
resistance fighers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject RENAMO (Organization)
RENAMO (Organization)
Guerrillas -- Mozambique
Veteran reintegration -- Mozambique
Veterans -- Mozambique -- Social conditions
War and society -- Mozambique
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Guerrillas
Veteran reintegration
Veterans -- Social conditions
War and society
Mozambique -- History -- 1994-
Mozambique -- History -- Independence and Civil War, 1975-1994.
Mozambique
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812296907
0812296907