Memory and the postcolony : African anthropology and the critique of power / edited by Richard Werbner.

By:

Werbner, Richard, [editor]

Contributor(s):

Werbner, Richard P

Material type:

TextSeries: Postcolonial encountersPublication details: London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 1998.Description: x, 236 p. : ill., map ; 22 cmISBN:

1856495914
1856495922 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

301/.096 21

Contents:

Beyond the grave / Filip De Boeck -- Death, memory and the politics of legitimation / Sharon Elaine Hutchinson -- Smoke from the barrel of a gun / Richard Werbner -- Uses of defeat / Jennifer Cole -- Systematic judicial and extra-judicial injustice / Sally Falk Moore -- Pentecostalism, cultural memory and the state / Rijk van Dijk -- Make a complete break with the past / Birgit Meyer -- Memory and becoming chosen other / Anthony Simpson.

Summary: Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the need to rethink our understanding of the moral & political force of memory, its official/unofficial forms, & its moves from the personal & the social in postcolonial transformations.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the need to rethink our understanding of the moral & political force of memory, its official/unofficial forms, & its moves from the personal & the social in postcolonial transformations.