ANTHRO 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Heritage Tourism, Tutsi, Hutu
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Review: examples of ethnicity boundary markers are dress, food, and language. How and why is ethnicity created and mobilized: conlict: ethnic cleansing and genocide, ethnic conlicts: genocide in rwanda (hutu vs. tutsi) Almost an enire ethnic populaion was wiped out (tutsi) People put ethnic ailiaion on id cards, even ater independence in 1962. Belgium promoted tutsis and not hutus, creaing more tension between the 2. The conlict was not originally about ethnicity: ethnic conlicts: yugoslavia. Eventually yugoslavia broke up into 3 separate states: ukraine (today) Ukraine is important to russia because of access to the black sea; natural gas. Ukrainian poliicians aren"t keen on being controlled by russia. Conlict not controlled by ethnicity: ethnicity as a source of opportunity. Heritage tourism: han chinese tourists in dai minority park, yunnan province. The han are the majority in china and dai are the minority. Middle class han are the people that go to the dai minority park.
