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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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Durham London
Duke University Press
2018
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| Dans: | Année: 2018 |
| Collection/Revue: | The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Elfenbeinküste
/ Femme
/ Ethnologie de la religion
/ Politique
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | 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) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | 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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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 284 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 1478002638 |
