An intimate rebuke : : female genital power in ritual and politics in Côte d'Ivoire / / Laura S. Grillo.
Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women — the Mothers — make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse an...
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| Superior document: | The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 pages). |
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