Feminine Ritual Power and African Politics
This response to Laura Grillo's An Intimate Rebuke concentrates on how feminine ritual power, sometime hidden and underplayed in male-dominated politics and public life more generally, has had revolutionary implications in modern African political history and has the potential to affect change...
| Published in: | Journal of Africana religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2019]
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| In: |
Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 307-310 |
| Review of: | An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa (Duke University Press, 2018) (Olúpǫ̀nà, Jacob Kę́hiǹdé) |
| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BB Indigenous religions KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | This response to Laura Grillo's An Intimate Rebuke concentrates on how feminine ritual power, sometime hidden and underplayed in male-dominated politics and public life more generally, has had revolutionary implications in modern African political history and has the potential to affect change in contemporary African states. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Excavating the Matri-archive (2019)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.7.2.2019.0307 |