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Memory and Postcolony

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Zusatztext Those who have come to fear that 'post-colonialism' is but another fashionable discourse destined to self-destruct in a cloud of specious theory and jargon will find proof to the contrary in this book. In the African 'crisis of memory' the contributors! distinguished senior and some of the most imaginative young scholars in the field! found a common theme and a complex of practises that holds these essays together. Above all! they demonstrate that anthropology's work did not end with the demise of colonialism and that it continues to produce findings and criticl insights worth to be pondered by historians! political scientists! students of law and religion! and many others. Informationen zum Autor Richard Werbner is Professor of African Anthropology and Director of the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research (ICCR) at the University of Manchester. Among his books are Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey (1989), and Tears of the Dead (1991), for which he received the Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He is coeditor-in-chief of Social Analysis and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Southern African Studies, Cultural Dynamics, Journal of Legal Pluralism, and Journal of Religion in Africa. He is also Series Editor of Postcolonial Encounters, a Zed Books series in association with the ICCR, Universities of Manchester and Keele. His distinguished career has included visiting appointments at a number of universities in Africa and North America. Klappentext The critique of power in contemporary Africa calls for a new approach to the making of political subjectivities. Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the urgent need to rethink our understanding of the moral and political force of memory, its official and unofficial forms, its moves between the personal and the social in postcolonial transformations. Memory and the Postcolony brings these transformations into perspective. It is divided into three sections in which distinguished anthropologists explore death and subjectivity; the memory work of elections and public commissions; and fundamentalism and the future. Presenting a sustained comparative analysis of memory as a politicized reality, the book will be essential reading for all scholars of postcolonial societies, as well as all those with an interest in contemporary Africa. Vorwort Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the need to rethink our understanding of the moral and political force of memory, its official and unofficial forms, and its moves between the personal and the social in postcolonial transformations. Zusammenfassung Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the need to rethink our understanding of the moral and political force of memory, its official and unofficial forms, and its moves between the personal and the social in postcolonial transformations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction - Richard Werbner 2. Beyond the Grave: Death, Body and Memory in Postcolonial Zaire/Congo - Filip De Boeck 3. Death, Memory and the Politics of Legitimation: Nuer Experiences of the Continuing Sudanese Civil War - Sharon Hutchinson 4. Smoke from the Barrel of a Gun: Memory, Postwars of the Dead, and Reinscription in Zimbabwe - Richard Werbner 5. The Uses of Defeat: Memory and Political Morality in East Madagascar - Jennifer Cole 6. Systematic Judicial and Extra-Judicial Injustice: Preparations for Future Accountability - Sally Moore 7. Fundamentalism, Cultural Memory and the State: Contested Representations of Time in Postcolonial Malawi - Rikj van Dijk 8. 'Make a Complete Break with the Past': Memory and Postcolonial Modernity in Ghanian Pentecostalist Discourse - Birgit Meyer 9. Memory and Becoming Chosen Other: Fundamentalism and Elite-Making in a Zambian Catholic Mission School - Anthony Simpson 1...

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Authors Richard Werbner
Assisted by Richard Werbner (Editor)
Publisher Zed Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.09.1998
 
EAN 9781856495929
ISBN 978-1-85649-592-9
No. of pages 256
Dimensions 140 mm x 220 mm x 20 mm
Series Postcolonial Encounter Series
Postcolonial Encounters
Postcolonial Encounters
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

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