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Jean Comaroff

Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance

The Culture and History of a South African People

303 pages, 9 halftones, 1 map     © 1985

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226114231   Published June 1985

List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Introduction
PART ONE
2. Event History
A Chronicle of the Problem
3. From Event to Structure
The Precolonial Sociocultural Order
4. The Mediation of Structure and Practice
Precolonial Cosmology and Ritual
PART TWO
5. Culture, Consciousness, and Structural Transformation
PART THREE
6. Alienation and the Kingdom of Zion
7. Ritual as Historical Practice
Mediation in the Neocolonial Context
8. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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