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Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People.
Abstract
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.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Isaacman, A., & Comaroff, J.
- Venue
- Contemporary Sociology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1987-07
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 484
- ISSN
- 0094-3061 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2332467888
- Cited by
- 702
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 61.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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