Colonial transactions

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Florence Bernault retells the colonial and postcolonial history of present-day Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how colonialism shaped French and Gabonese obsessions about fetish, witchcraft, and organ trafficking for ritual murders.



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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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 12 juli 2019

Aantal pagina's: 344

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Florence Bernault

Hoofduitgeverij: Duke University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 152 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 152 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 229 mm

Verpakking lengte: 229 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 454 g

EAN: 9781478001584

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