Memory and the Postcolony: African Anthropology and the Critique of Power (Postcolonial Encounters)

Werbner, Richard (editor)

ISBN 10: 1856495922 / ISBN 13: 9781856495929

Published by Zed Books, 1998

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Very Good-. Some light wear, scratching creasing, and bumping to the covers and pages; a moderate bend to the back cover and some pages. Binding is tight; text is clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memory and the Postcolony: African Anthropology and the Critique of Power (Postcolonial Encounters)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856495922
• ISBN 13: 9781856495929
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good-

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Synopsis

The critique of power in contemporary Africa calls for a new approach to the making of political subjectivities. Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the urgent need to rethink our understanding of the moral and political force of memory, its official and unofficial forms, its moves between the personal and the social in postcolonial transformations. Memory and the Postcolony brings these transformations into perspective. It is divided into three sections in which distinguished anthropologists explore death and subjectivity; the memory work of elections and public commissions; and fundamentalism and the future. Presenting a sustained comparative analysis of memory as a politicized reality, the book will be essential reading for all scholars of postcolonial societies, as well as all those with an interest in contemporary Africa.

About the Authors

Richard Werbner is emeritus professor of African anthropology at the University of Manchester. Among his books are Tears of the Dead (1991) and Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa (Zed 2002).

Pnina Werbner is professor emerita in social anthropology at Keele University. She is an urban anthropologist who has studied Muslim South Asians in Britain and Pakistan and, more recently, the women's movement and the Manual Workers Union in Botswana.