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

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.

• Author
• Jean Comaroff

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 303

• Publisher
• University of Chicago Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780226114231

• Genres
• africa, anthropology, history

• Release date
• 1985