Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon by Bernault, Florence

Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon

In Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead,...
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Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon by Bernault, Florence

Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon

€63,87

Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon

€63,87
Author: Florence Bernault
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Florence Bernault
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 07/12/2019
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781478001584


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2019

About the Author
Florence Bernault is Professor of African History at Sciences Po (Paris); Emerita Professor of African History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; author of Démocraties ambigües en Afrique centrale: Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, 1940-1965; and editor of A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa.

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