01805cam a2200313 4500 7316 20181127183358.0 980512s1998 enkab b 001 0 eng 98008150 1856495914 1856495922 (pbk.) 301/.096 21 Werbner, Richard editor Memory and the postcolony : African anthropology and the critique of power / edited by Richard Werbner. London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York, NY : 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. Anthropology Africa Philosophy. Memory. Power (Social sciences) Africa. Social psychology Africa. Africa Politics and government. Africa Social life and customs. Werbner, Richard P. 6237 6237 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2022-01-12 11271 1 301 WER 30010842 2022-01-12 00:00:00 2019-10-17 2018-11-27 MAIN