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- Title: Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power, And Rebellion in South Africa, 1880-1963
- Author : Journal of Social History
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: History,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power, and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880-1963. By Sean Redding (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006. 266pp.). For the past several decades, scholars have investigated the multiple reasons why black South Africans did or did not resist the racial discrimination that has characterized much of South African history. Many historians have examined the Frontier Wars of the nineteenth century, the battles between settlers and the Zulu in the mid-nineteenth century, and the violence between ANC supporters and the apartheid government in the 1970s and 1980s. However, relatively few scholars have asked how rural black South Africans understood and resisted the increasingly oppressive rule of a white-led government in the twentieth century. Consequently, many scholars either ignore the existence of rural struggles against racial oppression or subsume those moments into a general narrative of ANC resistance to apartheid rule. Sorcery and Sovereignty by Sean Redding offers an important intervention by focusing on the ways in which rural South Africans attempted to make sense of the new powers that invaded their everyday lives throughout the twentieth century.