Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance:The Culture and History of a South African People

Description

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.