UID:
edocfu_9958098656302883
Format:
1 online resource (300 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-7484-6
Series Statement:
The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Neither native nor stranger : places, encounters, prophecies -- "A war between soldiers and prophets" : embodied resistance in colonial Belgian Congo, 1921 -- Threatening gestures, immoral bodies : Kingunza after Kimbangu -- Dancing with the invisible : everyday performances under Mobutu Sese Seko -- Dancing disorder in Mobutu's Zaire : animation politique and gendered nationalisms -- Bundu dia Kongo and embodied revolutions : performing Kongo pride -- Transforming modern society.
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Also available in print form.
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English
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780822360209
Language:
English
