Making Refuge / Catherine Besteman.
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Global insecurities.
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| Summary: | 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 analysis, a catalyst for social action, and as a conduit for the social construction of reality, Covington-Ward focuses on specific flashpoints in the last ninety years of Congo's troubled history, when embodied performance was used to stake political claims, foster dissent, and enforce power. In the 1920s Simon Kimbangu started a Christian prophetic movement based on spirit-induced trembling, which swept through the lower Congo, subverting Belgian colonial authority. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822374725 0822374722 0822360276 9780822360278 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |