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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jacky Bouju and Mirjam de Bruijn -- Introduction: Ordinary Violence in Africa / Jacky Bouju and Mirjam de Bruijn -- Changing Life Worlds and Contested Space: Seclusion Practices among the Iraqw of Northern Tanzania / Jonathan Baker and Hege Wallevik -- A Chain of Family and Domestic Violence: Extramarital Pregnancy and Social Rupture in Burkina Faso / Fatoumata Ouattara and Katerini Storeng -- Social Violence and Gender Inequality: Mali’s Young Bambara Domestic Workers / Jacky Bouju -- The Itinerant Koranic School: Contested Practice in the History of Religion and Society in Central Chad / Mirjam de Bruijn -- Surviving Structural Violence in Zimbabwe: The Case Study of a Family Coping with Violence / Otrude N. Moyo -- The Cyclical Exchange of Violence in Congolese Kinship Relations / Sylvie Ayimpam -- Kill the Witch!: Anti-witchcraft Violence in the Central African Republic / Aleksandra Cimprič -- Ordinary Violence towards Street Children (Shegue) in Lubumbashi (D.R.C.) / Olivier Kahola-Tabu -- The Literary Threads of Domestic Violence in Mali / Sébastien Le Potvin -- Bibliography / Jacky Bouju and Mirjam de Bruijn -- Index / Jacky Bouju and Mirjam de Bruijn.