Clifton Crais

The Politics of Evil

Magic, State Power, and the Political Imagination in South Africa

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge-Hitachi
• Seitenzahl: 313
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780521533935
• ISBN-10: 0521533937
• Artikelnr.: 44253127

Autorenporträt

Clifton Crais is Professor of History and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Emory University. He is author of over one hundred works, including Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa(Cambridge, 2011); Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography (2008) - on the woman more famously known as the 'Hottentot Venus' and the subject of a feature film, 'Venus Noire' - and White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-Industrial South Africa: The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770-1865 (Cambridge, 1992). He is also editor of The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination (2003), co-editor of Breaking the Chains: Slavery and its Legacy in Nineteenth-Century South Africa (1995) and Area Editor of the Encyclopedia of World History (8 volumes, 2008). Crais is also the author of History Lessons (2014), a work that combines memoir, historiography and the neuroscience of memory, and a documentary history of South Africa. Long-range works include a history of violence and explorations of fiction and creative non-fiction concerning memory and narrative.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Cultures of Conquest: 1. The death of hope
2. Ethnographies of state
3. Rationalities and rule
Part II. States of Emergency: 4. Prophecies of nation
5. Government acts
6. Conflict in Qumbu
7. The men of the mountain
8. Flights of the lightning bird
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.