Gesture and power : : religion, nationalism, and everyday performance in Congo / / Yolanda Covington-Ward.
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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| Superior document: | The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, [2016] |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.