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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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    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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