Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance

The Culture and History of a South African People

Nonfiction, History, Africa, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
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Author: Jean Comaroff ISBN: 9780226160986
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication: November 15, 2013
Imprint: University of Chicago Press Language: English
Author: Jean Comaroff
ISBN: 9780226160986
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication: November 15, 2013
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Language: English

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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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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