Gesture and Power - Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo

Informationen zum Autor Yolanda Covington-Ward is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Klappentext Yolanda Covington-Ward is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  ix Introduction: Gesture and Power  1 I. Performative Encounters, Political Bodies 1. Neither Native nor Stranger: Places, Encounters, Phophecies  37 II. Spirits, Bodies, and Performance in Belgian Congo 2. "A War between Soldiers and Prophets": Embodied Resistance in Colonial Belgian Congo, 1921  71 3. Threatening Gestures, Immoral Bodies: Kingunza after Kimbangu  107 III. Civil Religion and Performed Politics in Postcolonial Congo 4. Dancing with the Invisible: Everyday Performances under Mobutu Sese Seko  137 5. Dancing Disorder in Mobutu's Zaire: Animation Politique and Gendered Nationalisms  165 IV. Re-creating the Past, Performing the Future 6. Bundu dia Kongo and Embodied Revolutions: Performing Kongo Pride, Transforming Modern Society  187 Conclusion: Privileging Gesture and Bodies in Studies of Religion and Power  227 Glossary  233 Notes  235 References  253 Index  275

Product details

• Authors: Yolanda Covington-Ward
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.12.2015
• EAN: 9780822360209
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6020-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Religious Cultures of African; Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People; Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People; Religious Cultures of African
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories