Format:
XII, 296 S. : Kt.
ISBN:
0-226-11422-8
,
0-226-11423-6
Content:
In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi struggle to construct a viable order of signs and practices through which they act upon the forces that engulf them. Their dissenting Churches of Zion have provided an effective medium for reconstructing a sense of history and identity, one that protests the terms of colonial and post-colonial society and culture.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Political Science
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Rolong
;
Religion
;
Rolong
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Rolong
;
Geschichte
;
Tswana
;
Geschichte
;
Rolong
;
Stamm
Author information:
Comaroff, Jean 1946-
