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What role does ritual play in the lives of modern Africans? How are "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver. In this collection of essays, the authors address such concepts as modernity, ritual, power and history.

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    A Paperback / softback by Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/11/1993
      ISBN13: 9780226114408, 978-0226114408
      ISBN10: 0226114406
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      Cultural studies Decolonisation

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      Book Synopsis
      What role does ritual play in the lives of modern Africans? How are "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver. In this collection of essays, the authors address such concepts as modernity, ritual, power and history.

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