Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa

by Alex Sanchez (Author), Laura Sanchez (Author), Comaroff (Author), WestministerAcademyPTA (Author)

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1993
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What role does ritual play in the lives of modern Africans? How are traditional cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where modernity has failed to deliver. In this collection of essays, the authors address such concepts as modernity, ritual, power and history.

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What role does ritual play in the lives of modern Africans? How are "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver. In this collection of essays, the authors address such concepts as modernity, ritual, power and history.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 01 Aug 1993
ISBN 10: 0226114406
ISBN 13: 9780226114408

Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa

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$33.71

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