Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance : The Culture and History of a South African People

Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance : The Culture and History of a South African People

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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.

Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People,Jean Comaroff,University Of Chicago Press,0226114236,Anthropology - Cultural,Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes,Ethnic identity,Politics and government,Religion,Rolong (African people),Social Science,Sociology,Africa,Anthropology,Cultural studies,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural

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