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Body Of Power Spirit Of Resistance
Paperback Edition: 1/1985
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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Pages : 303
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Publication date : 1985-01-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the USA, Humanities, Anthropology/archaeology, History, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography, African History