Memory and the postcolony : African anthropology and the critique of power
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Memory and the postcolony : African anthropology and the critique of power
(Postcolonial encounters)
Zed Books, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 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, the book will be essential reading for all scholars of postcolonial societies, as well as all those with an interest in contemporary Africa.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction - Richard Werbner
2. Beyond the Grave: Death, Body and Memory in Postcolonial Zaire/Congo - Filip De Boeck
3. Death, Memory and the Politics of Legitimation: Nuer Experiences of the Continuing Sudanese Civil War - Sharon Hutchinson
4. Smoke from the Barrel of a Gun: Memory, Postwars of the Dead, and Reinscription in Zimbabwe - Richard Werbner
5. The Uses of Defeat: Memory and Political Morality in East Madagascar - Jennifer Cole
6. Systematic Judicial and Extra-Judicial Injustice: Preparations for Future Accountability - Sally Moore
7. Fundamentalism, Cultural Memory and the State: Contested Representations of Time in Postcolonial Malawi - Rikj van Dijk
8. 'Make a Complete Break with the Past': Memory and Postcolonial Modernity in Ghanian Pentecostalist Discourse - Birgit Meyer
9. Memory and Becoming Chosen Other: Fundamentalism and Elite-Making in a Zambian Catholic Mission School - Anthony Simpson
10. Afterword - Liisa Malkki
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