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Author:   Richard Werbner
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Volume:   v. 4
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.284kg
ISBN:  

9781856495929

ISBN 10:   1856495922
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 September 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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The essays in this volume are must reading for all who contemplate life in the African postcolony. African Studies Review <br>

The essays in this volume are must reading for all who contemplate life in the African postcolony. African Studies Review

Author Information

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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