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Colonial Transactions - Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon (Hardcover)
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Colonial Transactions - Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon (Hardcover)
Series: Theory in Forms
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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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