Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism and Everyday Performance in Congo. By Yolanda Covington-Ward. Religious Cultures of African and Diaspora People Series. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. xii + 287 pp. $39.95 cloth; $29.95 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640717000452
Abstract: exchange within Mexican Catholicism. While the book is punctuated with enticing references to material practices from medieval Europe and the ancient Mediterranean world, greater elaboration is needed on the role indigenous Mexican cultures have played—and… read more here.
Keywords: performance congo; nationalism everyday; gesture power; everyday performance ... See more keywords