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Colonial Transactions
- Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon
Engelsk Paperback
Colonial Transactions
- Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon
Engelsk Paperback

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In Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the present, historicizing the most vivid imaginations and modes of power in Africa today: French obsessions with cannibals, the emergence of vampires and witches in the Gabonese imaginary, and the use of human organs for fetishes. Struggling over objects, bodies, agency, and values, colonizers and colonized entered relations that are better conceptualized as "transactions." Together they also shared an awareness of how the colonial situation broke down moral orders and forced people to use the evil side of power. This foreshadowed the ways in which people exercise agency in contemporary Africa, as well as the proliferation of magical fears and witchcraft anxieties in present-day Gabon. Overturning theories of colonial and postcolonial nativism, this book is essential reading for historians and anthropologists of witchcraft, power, value, and the body.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478001584
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478001585
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Udg. Dato:
12 jul 2019
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
12 jul 2019
Forfatter(e):
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