books.google.co.uk - This work is largely a social history of Tertullian, a Christian from Carthage (c.160220 CE), and his ancient African context, which is viewed through a postcolonial lens.Theories from the discipline of social/cultural anthropology, e.g. kinship, class and ethnicity, are applied to selections of Tertullian's...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Tertullian_the_African.html?id=anxK6pMCWMUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareTertullian the African