Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226114231)

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.

Author: Jean Comaroff
ISBN-10: 0226114236
ISBN-13: 9780226114231
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/1985
Pages: 303
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.00w x 0.70d