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100 _aWerbner, Richard
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245 0 0 _aMemory and the postcolony :
_bAfrican anthropology and the critique of power /
_cedited by Richard Werbner.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bZed Books ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bDistributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press,
_c1998.
300 _ax, 236 p. :
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_c22 cm.
440 0 _aPostcolonial encounters
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aBeyond 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.
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520 _aThrough 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.
650 0 _aAnthropology
_zAfrica
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aMemory.
650 0 _aPower (Social sciences)
_zAfrica.
650 0 _aSocial psychology
_zAfrica.
651 0 _aAfrica
_xPolitics and government.
651 0 _aAfrica
_xSocial life and customs.
700 1 _aWerbner, Richard P.
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