Body of power, spirit of resistance : the culture and history of a South African people / Jean Comaroff.
By: Comaroff, Jean.
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TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1985Description: xii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0226114228; 9780226114224; 0226114236 (pbk); 9780226114231 (pbk).Subject(s): Rolong (African people) -- Ethnic identity | Rolong (African people) -- Religion | Rolong (African people) -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 306.0899 Summary: 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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