Werbner, Richard        <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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.       
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1856495914 1856495922 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98008150 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Anthropology--Philosophy.--Africa<br/>Memory.<br/>Power (Social sciences)--Africa.<br/>Social psychology--Africa.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--Politics and government.<br/>Africa--Social life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>301/.096