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Memory and the Postcolony

Paperback • 1998 • English

Memory and the Postcolony: African Anthropology and the Critique of Power (Postcolonial Encounters)

By Richard Werbner

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About the book

The critique of power in contemporary Africa calls for a new approach to the making of political subjectivities. Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the urgent need to rethink our understanding of the moral and political force of memory, its official and unofficial forms, its moves between the personal and the social in postcolonial transformations. Memory and the Postcolony brings these transformations into perspective. It is divided into three sections in which disting...Show more

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9781856495929

Publisher

Zed Books

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

Memory and the Postcolony

Format

Paperback

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