Gesture and power : religion, nationalism, and everyday performance in Congo / Yolanda Covington-Ward.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Covington-Ward, Yolanda, 1979- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:	Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
Subjects:	Kongo (African people) > Communication. Body language > Congo (Democratic Republic) Dance > Social aspects > Congo (Democratic Republic)

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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