Colonial transactions : imaginaries, bodies, and histories in Gabon /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bernault, Florence (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Theory in forms.
Subjects:
1800-1960
Magic > Social aspects > Gabon.
Witchcraft > Social aspects > Gabon.
Imperialism in popular culture > France > History > 19th century.
Sorcellerie > Aspect social > Gabon.
Impérialisme dans la culture populaire > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Gabon.
France.
witchcraft.
magic.
ritual objects.
cannibalism.
colonial history.
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
Colonial influence
French colonies
Imperialism in popular culture
Magic > Social aspects
Colonies > Administration
Witchcraft > Social aspects
Gabon > Colonial influence.
Gabon > History > 1839-1960.
Gabon > Religious life and customs.
France > Colonies > Africa > Administration.
Gabon > Influence coloniale.
Gabon > Histoire > 1839-1960.
Gabon > Vie religieuse.
Africa
France
Gabon
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A siren, an empty shrine, and a photograph
  • Charms and their double lives
  • Carnal fetishism
  • The value of people
  • Cannibal mirrors
  • Eating.

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