Ordinary violence and social change in Africa / / edited by Jacky Bouju, Mirjam de Bruijn.

• Superior document: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series, Volume 31
• TeilnehmendeR: Bouju, Jacky,; Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; Volume 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction: Ordinary Violence in Africa /; Changing Life Worlds and Contested Space: Seclusion Practices among the Iraqw of Northern Tanzania /; A Chain of Family and Domestic Violence: Extramarital Pregnancy and Social Rupture in Burkina Faso /; Social Violence and Gender Inequality: Mali’s Young Bambara Domestic Workers /; The Itinerant Koranic School: Contested Practice in the History of Religion and Society in Central Chad /; Surviving Structural Violence in Zimbabwe: The Case Study of a Family Coping with Violence /; The Cyclical Exchange of Violence in Congolese Kinship Relations /; Kill the Witch!: Anti-witchcraft Violence in the Central African Republic /; Ordinary Violence towards Street Children (Shegue) in Lubumbashi (D.R.C.) /; The Literary Threads of Domestic Violence in Mali /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004272569
• ISSN: 1570-9310
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jacky Bouju, Mirjam de Bruijn.

Ordinary social violence, - id est recurrent mental or physical aggression occurring between closely related people - structures social relationships in Africa, and in the world. Studies of violence in Africa often refer to ethnic wars and explicit conflicts and do not enter the hidden domain of violence that this book reveals through in-depth anthropological studies from different parts and contexts in Africa. Ordinary violence has its distinctive forms embedded in specific histories and cultures. It is gendered, implicates witchcraft accusations, varies in rural and urban contexts, relates to demographic and socio-economic changes of the past decades and is embedded in the everyday life of many African citizens. The experience of ordinary violence goes beyond the simple notion of victimhood; instead it structures social life and should therefore be a compelling part of the study of social change.