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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Florence BernaultPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9781478001232ISBN 10: 1478001232 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 12 July 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 1. A Siren, an Empty Shrine, and a Photograph 27 2. The Double Life of Charms 69 3. Carnal Fetishism 96 4. The Value of People 118 5. Cannibal Mirrors 138 6. Eating 168 Conclusion 194 Notes 205 Bibliography 293 Index 321Reviews. . .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 InformationFlorence 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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