num_pages: 303
description: 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.
language: English
title: Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People
titlecomplete: Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People
genres: Africa, History, Nonfiction, Anthropology
ratings_count: 46
publisher: University of Chicago Press