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Gesture and Power : Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo /

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Main Author: Covington-Ward, Yolanda, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politik
Macht
Körpersprache
Leiblichkeit
Kongo > Volk
Dance > Social aspects.
Body language.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Danse > Aspect social > Congo (Republique democratique)
Langage du corps > Congo (Republique democratique)
Kongo (Peuple d'Afrique) > Communication.
Dance > Social aspects > Congo (Democratic Republic)
Body language > Congo (Democratic Republic)
Kongo (African people) > Communication.
Demokratische Republik Kongo
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Neither native nor stranger : places, encounters, prophecies
  • "A war between soldiers and prophets" : embodied resistance in colonial Belgian Congo, 1921
  • Threatening gestures, immoral bodies : Kingunza after Kimbangu
  • Dancing with the invisible : everyday performances under Mobutu Sese Seko
  • Dancing disorder in Mobutu's Zaire : animation politique and gendered nationalisms
  • Bundu dia Kongo and embodied revolutions : performing Kongo pride
  • Transforming modern society.

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