Not logged in : Login
(Sponging disallowed)

About: Tutsi     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : foaf:Concept, within Data Space : www.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://www.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fods.openlinksw.com%3A8889%2Fabout%2Fid%2Fentity%2Fhttp%2Fdublincore.org%2Fusage%2Fterms%2Fhistory%2F%23tutsi

AttributesValues
focus
Description
  • Tutsi (pronounced /ˈtuːtsi/; Tutsi pronunciation: [tūtsī]) are one of three native peoples of the nations of Rwanda and Burundi in central Africa, the other two being the Twa and the Hutu. The ideas surrounding supposed ethnic groups in Rwanda have a very long and complicated history. The definitions of "Hutu" and "Tutsi" may have changed through time and location. Social structures were not identical throughout Rwanda. There was clearly a Tutsi aristocracy that was distinguished from Tutsi commoners, and wealthy Hutu were often indistinguishable from upper class Tutsi. When the Belgian colonists conducted their censuses, they desired to classify the people throughout Rwanda-Burundi with a single classification scheme. They merely defined "Tutsi" as anyone with more than ten cows or a long nose. The "Caucasian-like" noses of some Rwandans invoked historical and racial theories to explain how some Africans acquired such noses. According to these early twentieth-century Europeans, the...
Title
  • Tutsi
providedBy
type
is seeAlso of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git122 as of Jan 03 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: iSPARQL | ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Apr 5 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc25), Single-Server Edition (30 GB total memory, 26 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software