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An intimate rebuke, female genital power in ritual and politics in Côte d'Ivoire, Laura S. Grillo

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An intimate rebuke, female genital power in ritual and politics in Côte d'Ivoire, Laura S. Grillo

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

An intimate rebuke

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Laura S. Grillo

Series statement

The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people

Sub title

female genital power in ritual and politics in Côte d'Ivoire

Table Of Contents

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 -- 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 -- 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

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