Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People
by:
Jean Comaroff (author)
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...
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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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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780226114231 (0226114236)
ASIN: 0226114236
Publish date: 1985-06-15
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 303
Edition language: English
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