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Gesture and Power : Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo by Covington-Ward, Yolanda, is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Gesture and Power : Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo about?
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 flash points in the last ninety years of Congo's troubled history, when em
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Covington-Ward, Yolanda,
- Publisher
- Duke University Press, c2016.
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822360360
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Folklore, Religion
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25