| Description |
x, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Postcolonial encounters series |
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Postcolonial encounters.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Beyond Oblivion: Confronting Memory Crisis / Richard Werbner -- Pt. 1. In Memory: Death and Subjectivity. Ch. 1. Beyond the Grave: History, Memory and Death in Postcolonial Congo/Zaire / Filip De Boeck. Ch. 2. Death, Memory and the Politics of Legitimation: Nuer Experiences of the Continuing Second Sudanese Civil War / Sharon Elaine Hutchinson. Ch. 3. Smoke from the Barrel of a Gun: Postwars of the Dead, Memory and Reinscription in Zimbabwe / Richard Werbner -- Pt. 2. Towards Memory: Elections, Trials and Commissions. Ch. 4. The Uses of Defeat: Memory and Political Morality in East Madagascar / Jennifer Cole. Ch. 5. Systematic Judicial and Extra-Judicial Injustice: Preparations for Future Accountability / Sally Falk Moore -- Pt. 3. Against Memory: Fundamentalism and the Future. Ch. 6. Pentecostalism, Cultural Memory and the State: Contested Representations of Time in Postcolonial Malawi / Rijk van Dijk |
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Ch. 7. 'Make a Complete Break with the Past': Memory and Postcolonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostal Discourse / Birgit Meyer. Ch. 8. Memory and Becoming Chosen Other: Fundamentalist Elite-Making in a Zambian Catholic Mission School / Anthony Simpson |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Africa -- Philosophy.
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Memory.
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Power (Social sciences) -- Africa.
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Social psychology -- Africa.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001570
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Africa -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100923
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| Author |
Werbner, Richard P.
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| LC no. |
98008150 |
| ISBN |
1856495914 |
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1856495922 (paperback) |
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