TY  - BOOK
AU  - Covington-Ward, Yolanda
AB  - In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis, a catalyst for social action, and as a conduit for the social construction of reality, Covington-Ward focuses on specific flashpoints in the last ninety years of Congo's troubled history, when embodied performance was used to stake political claims, foster dissent, and enforce power. In the 1920s Simon Kimbangu started a Christian prophetic movement based on spirit-induced trembling, which swept through the lower Congo, subverting Belgian colonial authority. Following independence, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko required citizens to dance and sing nationalist songs daily as a means of maintaining political control.
DO  - 10.1215/9780822374848
ID  - OAPEN ID: 649994
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1038395647
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Bundu dia Kongo
KW  - Congo Basin
KW  - Democratic Republic of the Congo
KW  - Kingdom of Kongo
KW  - Kinshasa
KW  - Kongo people
KW  - Luozi
KW  - Mobutu Sese Seko
KW  - Simon Kimbangu
KW  - Zaire
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/68dfea5e-2f10-458d-b1f7-b64455303f0f/649994.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30106
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham, NC
PY  - 2018-05-04
SN  - 9780822374848
TI  - Gesture and Power : Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo
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