An intimate rebuke: female genital power in ritual and politics in West Africa
Home and the unhomely: the foundational nature of female genital power -- Genies, witches, and women: locating female powers -- Matrifocal morality: FGP and the foundation of "home" -- Gender and resistance: the "strategic essentialism" of FGP -- Worldliness: FGP in the making of...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Durham London
Duke University Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ivory Coast
/ Woman
/ Religious ethnology
/ Politics
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| Further subjects: | B
Older women
Political activity
Côte d'Ivoire
B Côte d'Ivoire Religion B Generative organs, Female Religious aspects B Generative organs, Female Political aspects Côte d'Ivoire B Generative organs, Female Symbolic aspects Côte d'Ivoire B Older women Religious life Côte d'Ivoire |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Home and the unhomely: the foundational nature of female genital power -- Genies, witches, and women: locating female powers -- Matrifocal morality: FGP and the foundation of "home" -- Gender and resistance: the "strategic essentialism" of FGP -- Worldliness: FGP in the making of ethnicity, alliance, and war in Côte d'Ivoire-- Founding knowledge/binding power: the moral foundations of ethnicity and Alliance -- Women at the checkpoint: challenging the forces of civil war -- Timeliness: urgent situations and emergent critiques -- Violation and deployment: FGP in politics in Côte d'Ivoire-- Memory, memorialization, and morality -- Conclusion. an intimate rebuke: a local critique in the global postcolony |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1478002638 |