Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo by Yolanda Covington-Ward

Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo

Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

Yolanda Covington-Ward

304 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion
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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 a...

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