Body of power, spirit of resistance: the culture and history of a South African people

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 p...

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1. Verfasser: Comaroff, Jean 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago [u.a.] Univ. of Chicago Pr. 1985
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:XII, 296 S. Kt.
ISBN:0226114228
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