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

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Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People - Comaroff, Jean
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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 ...

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Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People 1985, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226114231

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