Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African PeopleIn 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. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
Part 1 | 15 |
A Chronicle of the Problem | 17 |
The Precolonial Sociocultural Order | 42 |
Precolonial Cosmology and Ritual | 78 |
Part 2 | 121 |
5 Culture Consciousness and Structural Transformation | 123 |
Part 3 | 157 |
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African Afrikaans agnatic articulation Bantu Barolong body Boer bogwęra bricolage Broadbent Burchell cattle central chief chiefdoms chiefship Christian collective colonial congregation consciousness context contrast cultural dance domestic domination endogamy established everyday fact female forces forms Full Witness Church groups healing Holub identity ideology indigenous industrial initiation J. L. Comaroff latter liminal logic London Mafeking Mafikeng male margins matrilateral mediation metaphors Methodist mission missionaries mode modern Tshidi modimo Molema Montshiwa movement neocolonial novices orthodoxy petite bourgeoisie physical political politico-economic practice production proletarianization Protestant Protestant orthodoxy Protestantism rank relations relations of production relationship religious reproduction resistance rites ritual role royal Schapera scheme Setswana sexual significance social sociocultural song South Africa southern Africa southern Tswana spirit structure subsocial Sundkler symbolic Thaba Nchu tion transformation University wage labor Willoughby women Zion Zion Christian Church Zionist churches Zulu