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…mehr
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.
Richard Werbner is Professor of African Anthropology and Director of the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research (ICCR) at the University of Manchester. Among his books are Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey (1989), and Tears of the Dead (1991), for which he received the Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He is coeditor-in-chief of Social Analysis and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Southern African Studies, Cultural Dynamics, Journal of Legal Pluralism, and Journal of Religion in Africa. He is also Series Editor of Postcolonial Encounters, a Zed Books series in association with the ICCR, Universities of Manchester and Keele. His distinguished career has included visiting appointments at a number of universities in Africa and North America.
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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
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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