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Inbunden, Engelska, 2003
905 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 532 kr
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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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
375 kr
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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.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2019553 kr
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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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Franska, 1999387 kr
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À la fin du XIXe siècle, sauf à l''intérieur de quelques garnisons et forts de traite européens de la côte, les prisons étaient inconnues en Afrique. Aujourd''hui, les États africains utilisent massivement le système pénitentiaire légué par les colonisateurs. Comme le rappellent chaque jour les prisons surpeuplées du Rwanda, la nuit carcérale étend désormais son ombre sur l''ensemble des sociétés au sud du Sahara. Dès les premières années de la conquête coloniale, la prison joua un rôle central dans le contrôle de la population. Des bâtiments temporaires aidèrent à contraindre et à soumettre les Africains au travail forcé et à l''impôt obligatoire, remplacés bientôt par un maillage serré de prisons permanentes, partie intégrante du décor colonial et de ses techniques répressives.Aujourd''hui, ce réseau architectural n''a été ni détruit ni remplacé, et fournit la majeure partie des bâtisses utilisées par le régime pénal des États contemporains. Mais la prison fait partie d''un ensemble plus vaste. Les gouvernements coloniaux dotèrent leurs territoires d''institutions destinées à connaître, comprendre et surtout quadriller les espaces et les hommes qui persistaient à leur échapper.Ces outils intellectuels et matériels - cartes ethniques, routes, villages regroupés, asiles, camps de travail - enfermèrent peu à peu l''Afrique dans une nouvelle forme d''espace politique, dont les paysages actuels sont les héritiers directs. Ce basculement séculaire d''une Afrique ouverte à une Afrique fermée contient de précieuses leçons sur l''efficacité des modèles de gouvernement occidentaux à envahir d''autres aires culturelles, sur la capacité des hommes ordinaires à refuser ou à manipuler les systèmes imposés de l''extérieur, ainsi que sur le destin de l''autorité en Afrique, et de ses États.Cet ouvrage présente pour la première fois l''histoire sociale, culturelle et politique des arsenaux répressifs apparus en Afrique, depuis la capture des esclaves au XIXe siècle jusqu''aux prisons du génocide rwandais, en passant par les asiles d''aliénés coloniaux, les camps de réfugiés, et les réponses des prisonniers à leurs bourreaux.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
895 kr
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A multidisciplinary study of power in Central Africa.Central Africa has long been a fertile ground for engendering new concepts and innovative research, exerting significant influence on African studies and beyond. This edited volume offers groundbreaking, multidisciplinary reflections on power in Central Africa, from the Atlantic slave trade era to the present. By bringing together emerging and leading scholars, Textures of Power builds on the rich epistemic legacies of (Central) African studies, and opens new research avenues across history, anthropology, and cultural and political studies. It offers fresh perspectives on colonial and postcolonial power structures, drawing on new findings while critically engaging with earlier theoretical frameworks.Employing the concept of “texture” as a red thread, the book showcases the central importance of power as an analytical tool in the humanities and the social sciences. It fosters dialogues between emotions and technology, colonialism and its aftermath, and between non-humans and the invisible world. Drawing on stories about women, social rebellions, digital technologies, slavery, languages, forest management, charms, care and bio-medicine, urban life, radio, music, witchcraft, homosexuality, and environmental pollution, this volume emphasizes bottom-up, long-term and emic approaches as well as local theories about power.This work will appeal to students and scholars in African studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, and those interested in Africa’s longue durée history. Beyond its spatial focus, it will also be relevant to those studying power dynamics, cultural studies, queer and gender studies, and environmental humanities.