Memory and the Postcolony: African Anthropology and the Critique of PowerThe critique of power in contemporary Africa calls for a new approach to the making of political subjectives. 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. This book brings these transformations into perspective. Distinguished anthropologists explore death and subjectivity; the memory work of elections and public commissions; and fundamentalism and the future, presenting a sustained comparative analysis of memory as a politicized reality. |
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Contents
The Dead Unsettled Memory and State Collapse | 3 |
Memory Suppression Failure and Democracy | 9 |
History Memory and Death | 21 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Memory and the Postcolony: African Anthropology and the Critique of Power Postcolonial encounters |
| Editor | Richard P. Werbner |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Zed Books, 1998 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 6, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1856495914, 9781856495912 |
| Length | 236 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural |
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