TY  - GEN
AU  - Covington-Ward,Yolanda
TI  - Gesture and Power : Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo
SN  - 9780822374848
PY  - 2018///0504
CY  - Durham, NC
PB  - Duke University Press
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
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30106/1/649994.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30106/1/649994.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30106/1/649994.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26634
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