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An intimate rebuke : female genital power in ritual and politics in West Africa
- Title
- An intimate rebuke : female genital power in ritual and politics in West Africa / Laura S. Grillo.
- Author
- Grillo, Laura S., 1956-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xi, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
- Uniform Title
- Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-526
- ISBN
- 9781478001201
- 1478001208
- 9781478001553
- 1478001550
- LCCN
- 2018008228
- OCLC
- 1029098568
- Author
- Grillo, Laura S., 1956- author.
- Title
- An intimate rebuke : female genital power in ritual and politics in West Africa / Laura S. Grillo.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The religious cultures of African and African diaspora peopleReligious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-526