An Intimate Rebuke : Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa /

Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women--the Mothers--make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse and...

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Auteur principal: Grillo, Laura S., 1956- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
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