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Gesture and Power de Yolanda Covington-Ward

Gesture and Power

Autor Yolanda Covington-Ward
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 dec 2015
In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822360209
ISBN-10: 0822360209
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

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Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction: Gesture and Power  1

I. Performative Encounters, Political Bodies

1. Neither Native nor Stranger: Places, Encounters, Phophecies  37

II. Spirits, Bodies, and Performance in Belgian Congo

2. "A War between Soldiers and Prophets": Embodied Resistance in Colonial Belgian Congo, 1921  71

3. Threatening Gestures, Immoral Bodies: Kingunza after Kimbangu  107

III. Civil Religion and Performed Politics in Postcolonial Congo

4. Dancing with the Invisible: Everyday Performances under Mobutu Sese Seko  137

5. Dancing Disorder in Mobutu's Zaire: Animation Politique and Gendered Nationalisms  165

IV. Re-creating the Past, Performing the Future

6. Bundu dia Kongo and Embodied Revolutions: Performing Kongo Pride, Transforming Modern Society  187

Conclusion: Privileging Gesture and Bodies in Studies of Religion and Power  227

Glossary  233

Notes  235

References  253

Index  275