Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
Edición de la obra Making Refuge
| Autor | Catherine Besteman |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Duke University Press Books |
| Fecha de publicación | Feb 05, 2016 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 352 |
| Formato | paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9780822360445 |
| ISBN-10 | 0822360446 |
| OCLC | 906010531, 010649309 |
| LCCN | 2015026280 |
| Número de Cutter | B561m |
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.