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Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People

By Jean Comaroff

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780226160986, 022616098X
Google Books ID
zNgnAgAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13264743 bytes)
Pages
309\309
Time added
2024-05-17 08:39:33

Description

In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi struggle to construct a viable order of signs and practices through which they act upon the forces that engulf them. Their dissenting Churches of Zion have provided an effective medium for reconstructing a sense of history and identity, one that protests the terms of colonial and post-colonial society and culture.

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