Feminine Ritual Power and African Politics
This response to Laura Grillo's An Intimate Rebuke concentrates on how feminine ritual power, sometime hidden and underplayed in male-dominated politics and public life more generally, has had revolutionary implications in modern African political history and has the potential to affect change...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2019]
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 307-310 |
Review of: | An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa (Duke University Press, 2018) (Olúpǫ̀nà, Jacob Kę́hiǹdé) |
IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BB Indigenous religions KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NBE Anthropology |
Further subjects: | B
Book review
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Summary: | This response to Laura Grillo's An Intimate Rebuke concentrates on how feminine ritual power, sometime hidden and underplayed in male-dominated politics and public life more generally, has had revolutionary implications in modern African political history and has the potential to affect change in contemporary African states. |
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ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
Reference: | Kritik in "Excavating the Matri-archive (2019)"
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Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.7.2.2019.0307 |