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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.1985
• EAN: 9780226114231
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11423-1
• No. of pages: 303
• Dimensions: 232 mm x 161 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 464 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries