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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1. VerfasserIn: Grillo, Laura Susan (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Durham London Duke University Press 2018
In:Jahr: 2018
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Elfenbeinküste / Frau / Religionsethnologie / Politik
weitere Schlagwörter: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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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physische Details:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 284 Seiten)
ISBN:1478002638