This book is an historical anthropological study of Congolese
society (primarily the Lower Congo region) in the 19th and early
20th centuries. Its primary focus is the transition from a
pre-colonial to a colonial order. The approach is "global
anthropology" that seeks to understand social and cultural
transformation as the historical product of global relations.
Friedman demonstrates that much of "traditional" Congolese society
and culture is a product of the transformation generated by
integration of the region into the world system. He shows that
phenomena that have been accepted as fixed cultural structure such
as the kinship system, fetishism and cannibalism are historical
products of a turbulent transition. The book combines structural
analysis of social and cultural logics with a framework that
stretches from the self to the global system to grasp the nature of
social transformation.
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