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An intimate rebuke : female genital power in ritual and politics in West Africa / Laura S. Grillo

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Author:
Grillo, Laura S. 1956-  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Côte d'Ivoire
Date:
2018
Notes:
AFAMAIN copy Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment.
Contents:
Part I. Home and the unhomely: the foundational nature of female genital power -- Genies, witches, and women: locating female powers -- Matrifocal morality: FGP and the foundation of "home" -- Gender and resistance: the "strategic essentialism" of FGP -- Par t II. Worldliness: FGP in the making of ethnicity, alliance, and war in Côte d'Ivoire -- Founding knowledge/binding power: the moral foundations of ethnicity and Alliance -- Women at the checkpoint: challenging the forces of civil war -- Part III.Timeliness: urgent situations and emergent critiques -- Violation and deployment: FGP in politics in Côte d'Ivoire -- Memory, memorialization, and morality -- Conclusion. an intimate rebuke: a local critique in the global postcolony
Topic:
Older women--Religious life  Search this
Older women--Political activity  Search this
Generative organs, Female--Symbolic aspects  Search this
Generative organs, Female--Religious aspects  Search this
Generative organs, Female--Political aspects  Search this
Religion  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1107725