TY  - BOOK
AU  - Comaroff,Jean
TI  - Body of power, spirit of resistance: the culture and history of a South African people 
SN  - 0226114228
AV  - 306.0899 C65 1985
U1  - 306.0899 
PY  - 1985///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Rolong (African people)
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Religion
KW  - Politics and government
N2  - 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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