TY  - BOOK
AU  - Werbner, Richard 
AU  - Werbner,Richard P.
TI  - Memory and the postcolony: African anthropology and the critique of power 
SN  - 1856495914
U1  - 301/.096 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London, New York, New York, NY
PB  - Zed Books, Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Africa
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Memory
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -