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020 _a9781478002635
020 _z9781478091639
020 _z9781478001201
020 _z9781478001553
035 _a(OCoLC)1029070823
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
100 1 _aGrillo, Laura S.,
_d1956-
_eauthor.
245 1 3 _aAn Intimate Rebuke :
_bFemale Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa /
_cLaura S. Grillo.
264 1 _aDurham :
_bDuke University Press,
_c2018.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2019
264 4 _c©2018.
300 _a1 online resource (328 pages).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aThe religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
505 0 _a1. Genies, witches, and women : locating female powers -- 2. Matrifocal morality : FGP and the foundation of "home" -- 3. Gender and resistance : the "strategic essentialism" of FGP -- 4. Founding knowledge/binding power : the moral foundations of ethnicity and alliance -- 5. Women at the checkpoint : challenging the forces of civil war -- 6. Violation and deployment : FGP in politics in Côte d'Ivoire -- 7. Memory, memorialization, and morality -- Conclusion : an intimate rebuke: a local critique in the global postcolony.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aThroughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women--the Mothers--make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse and expel the forces of evil. In An Intimate Rebuke Laura S. Grillo draws on fieldwork in Côte d'Ivoire that spans three decades to illustrate how these rituals of Female Genital Power (FGP) constitute religious and political responses to abuses of power. When deployed in secret, FGP operates as spiritual warfare against witchcraft; in public, it serves as a political activism. During Côte d'Ivoire's civil wars FGP challenged the immoral forces of both rebels and the state. Grillo shows how the ritual potency of the Mothers' nudity and the conjuration of their sex embodies a moral power that has been foundational to West African civilization. Highlighting the remarkable continuity of the practice across centuries while foregrounding the timeliness of FGP in contemporary political resistance, Grillo shifts perspectives on West African history, ethnography, comparative religious studies, and postcolonial studies.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 7 _aReligion.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01093763
650 7 _aGenerative organs, Female
_xReligious aspects.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst02006576
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE
_xMinority Studies.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE
_xDiscrimination & Race Relations.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
_2bicssc
650 6 _aFemmes âgees
_zCôte-d'Ivoire
_xVie religieuse.
650 6 _aFemmes âgees
_xActivite politique
_zCôte-d'Ivoire.
650 6 _aOrganes genitaux femelles
_xAspect symbolique
_zCôte-d'Ivoire.
650 6 _aOrganes genitaux femelles
_xAspect religieux.
650 6 _aOrganes genitaux femelles
_xAspect politique
_zCôte-d'Ivoire.
650 0 _aOlder women
_xReligious life
_zCôte d'Ivoire.
650 0 _aOlder women
_xPolitical activity
_zCôte d'Ivoire.
650 0 _aGenerative organs, Female
_xSymbolic aspects
_zCôte d'Ivoire.
650 0 _aGenerative organs, Female
_xReligious aspects.
650 0 _aGenerative organs, Female
_xPolitical aspects
_zCôte d'Ivoire.
651 7 _aCôte d'Ivoire.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01219323
651 0 _aCôte d'Ivoire
_xReligion.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/65094/
945 _aProject MUSE - 2019 Complete
945 _aProject MUSE - 2019 Archaeology and Anthropology
945 _aProject MUSE - 2019 African Studies
999 _c232470
_d232469