BODY OF POWER, SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE by Jean Comaroff ( 9780226114231 )

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Title:

BODY OF POWER, SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE
THE CULTURE AND HISTORY OF A SOUTH AFRICAN PEOPLE

By:

Jean Comaroff

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0226114236

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9780226114231

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Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

1 June, 1985

Pages:

308

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

9 halftones, 1 map

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University of Chicago Press

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