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Author: Florence Bernault
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781478001584
ISBN 10: 1478001585
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 12 July 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
. . .This should be a key text for African studies and certainly for any collection centered on West and Central Africa. -- J. R. Kenyon * Choice * Bernault's ability to trace . . . imaginaries throughout centuries of thought and praxis in both France and Gabon make this book a valuable addition to the historiography of west Africa. -- Amanda Ford * International Social Science Review * Bernault's book fills a void in many ways, providing an English-speaking audience with one among the very few in-depth studies out there on a nation and its people that certainly merit more attention. -- Cheryl Toman * Postcolonial Text * A well-documented scholarly work enriched with an elegant style.... With this new book, Florence Bernault makes an invaluable contribution to African cultural anthropology by proposing an innovative approach to witchcraft that transcends the nativist paradigm and explores the intersecting third space of mutual influences (colonized/colonizers) from which arose the creolized spiritual landscape of postcolonial Gabon. -- Marc Mve Bekale * African Studies Review * Florence Bernault offers an original and refreshing history of European-African colonial encounters in Gabon, Equatorial Africa. She does so by using a wealth of sources.... [Colonial Transactions] will appeal to scholars of colonialism in Africa and beyond, and to anyone interested in African spirituality and modernity. -- Ndubueze L. Mbah * Journal of African History *
Bernault's book fills a void in many ways, providing an English-speaking audience with one among the very few in-depth studies out there on a nation and its people that certainly merit more attention. -- Cheryl Toman * Postcolonial Text * Bernault's ability to trace . . . imaginaries throughout centuries of thought and praxis in both France and Gabon make this book a valuable addition to the historiography of west Africa. -- Amanda Ford * International Social Science Review * . . .This should be a key text for African studies and certainly for any collection centered on West and Central Africa. -- J. R. Kenyon * Choice *
. . .This should be a key text for African studies and certainly for any collection centered on West and Central Africa. -- J. R. Kenyon * Choice *
Author Information
Florence Bernault is Professor of African History at Sciences Po (Paris); Emerita Professor of African History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; author of Démocraties ambigües en Afrique centrale: Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, 1940–1965; and editor of A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa.
