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GESTURE AND POWER;RELIGION, NATIONALISM, AND EVERYDAY PERFORMANCE IN CONGO.

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. Conceiving of the body as the center of analys...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: YOLANDA COVINGTON-WARD
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: DURHAM : DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015.
Subjects:
Body language > Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Dance > Social aspects > Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kongo (African people) > Communication.
Langage du corps > Congo (République démocratique)
Danse > Aspect social > Congo (République démocratique)
Kongo (Peuple d'Afrique) > Communication.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Gesture and Power
  • Part I PERFORMATIVE ENCOUNTERS, POLITICAL BODIES
  • Chapter 1 Neither Native nor Stranger: Places, Encounters, Prophecies
  • Part II SPIRITS, BODIES, AND PERFORMANCE IN BELGIAN CONGO
  • Chapter 2 "A War between Soldiers and Prophets" Embodied Resistance in Colonial Belgian Congo, 1921
  • Chapter 3 Threatening Gestures, Immoral Bodies: Kingunza after Kimbangu
  • Part III CIVIL RELIGION AND PERFORMED POLITICS IN POSTCOLONIAL CONGO
  • Chapter 4 Dancing with the Invisible: Everyday Performances under Mobutu Sese Seko
  • Chapter 5 Dancing Disorder in Mobutu's Zaire: Animation Politique and Gendered Nationalisms
  • Part IV RE- CREATING THE PAST, PERFORMING THE FUTURE
  • Chapter 6 Bundu dia Kongo and Embodied Revolutions: Performing Kongo Pride, Transforming Modern Society
  • Conclusion: Privileging Gesture and Bodies in Studies of Religion and Power
  • GLOSSARY
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX