Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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.Read More

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  • 0226114236
  • 9780226114231
  • Comaroff
  • 1 June 1985
  • Chicago University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 303
  • illustrated edition
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