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dc.contributor.authorCovington-Ward, Yolanda
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-18 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10 03:00:28
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:45:14Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T12:45:14Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-04
dc.identifier649994
dc.identifierOCN: 1038395647en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30106
dc.description.abstractIn 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.otherAnthropology
dc.subject.otherAnthropology
dc.subject.otherBundu dia Kongo
dc.subject.otherCongo Basin
dc.subject.otherDemocratic Republic of the Congo
dc.subject.otherKingdom of Kongo
dc.subject.otherKinshasa
dc.subject.otherKongo people
dc.subject.otherLuozi
dc.subject.otherMobutu Sese Seko
dc.subject.otherSimon Kimbangu
dc.subject.otherZaire
dc.titleGesture and Power
dc.title.alternativeReligion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1215/9780822374848
oapen.relation.isPublishedByf0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780822374848
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.place.publicationDurham, NC
oapen.grant.number103403
oapen.grant.programKU Round 2
oapen.redirect604616
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Bundu dia Kongo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundu_dia_Kongo; Congo Basin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Basin; Democratic Republic of the Congo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo; Kingdom of Kongo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kongo; Kinshasa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinshasa; Kongo people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongo_people; Luozi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luozi; Mobutu Sese Seko - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko; Simon Kimbangu - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Kimbangu; Zaire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaire
oapen.identifier.isbn9780822374848
grantor.number103403
oapen.identifier.ocn1038395647


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