Memory and the postcolony :
Werbner, Richard
Memory and the postcolony : African anthropology and the critique of power / edited by Richard Werbner. - London ; New York : New York, NY : Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 1998. - x, 236 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. - Postcolonial encounters .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
1856495914 1856495922 (pbk.)
98008150
Anthropology--Philosophy.--Africa
Memory.
Power (Social sciences)--Africa.
Social psychology--Africa.
Africa--Politics and government.
Africa--Social life and customs.
301/.096
Memory and the postcolony : African anthropology and the critique of power / edited by Richard Werbner. - London ; New York : New York, NY : Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 1998. - x, 236 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. - Postcolonial encounters .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
1856495914 1856495922 (pbk.)
98008150
Anthropology--Philosophy.--Africa
Memory.
Power (Social sciences)--Africa.
Social psychology--Africa.
Africa--Politics and government.
Africa--Social life and customs.
301/.096