RT Book
T1 An intimate rebuke: female genital power in ritual and politics in West Africa
T2 The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
A1 Grillo, Laura Susan
LA English
PP Durham London
PB Duke University Press
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663103348
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL2470.C85
SN 978-1-4780-0263-5
K1 Older women : Religious life : Côte d'Ivoire
K1 Older women : Political activity : Côte d'Ivoire
K1 Generative organs, Female : Symbolic aspects : Côte d'Ivoire
K1 Generative organs, Female : Religious aspects
K1 Generative organs, Female : Political aspects : Côte d'Ivoire
K1 Côte d'Ivoire : Religion