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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
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2447698 bytes)
Pages
309\0
Time added
2024-05-17 08:38:42

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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