Gesture and power
Subtitle: religion, nationalism, and everyday performance in Congo
By: Yolanda Covington-Ward
Contributors: Duke University Press
Series: The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people; Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780822360209; 9780822360360; 9780822374848
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Dance; Communication; Kongo (African people); Body language
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Neither native nor stranger : places, encounters, prophecies; title: "A war between soldiers and prophets" : embodied resistance in colonial Belgian Congo, 1921; title: Threatening gestures, immoral bodies : Kingunza after Kimbangu; title: Dancing with the invisible : everyday performances under Mobutu Sese Seko; title: Dancing disorder in Mobutu's Zaire : animation politique and gendered nationalisms; title: Bundu dia Kongo and embodied revolutions : performing Kongo pride; title: Transforming modern society.