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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Bernault, Florence
Titre(s) : Colonial transactions [Texte imprimé] : imaginaries, bodies, and histories in Gabon / Florence Bernault
Publication : Durham (N. C.) : Duke University Press, 2019
Description matérielle : xi, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : Theory in forms
Lien à la collection : Theory in forms
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-319) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Magie -- Société -- Gabon -- 1800-....
Sorcellerie -- Société -- Gabon -- 1800-....
Impérialisme -- Dans la culture populaire -- Gabon -- 1800-....
Indice(s) Dewey :
967.210 2 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Gabon - 1839-1960
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781478001232. - ISBN 1478001232. - ISBN 9781478001584. - ISBN 1478001585. -
ISBN 9781478002666 (erroné) (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45793261q
Notice n° :
FRBNF45793261
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : A siren, an empty shrine, and a photograph ; The double life of charms ; Carnal
fetishism ; The value of people ; Cannibal mirrors ; Eating.