TY  - BOOK
AU  - Covington-Ward,Yolanda
TI  - Gesture and Power: religion, nationalism, and everyday performance in Congo 
T2  - The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
SN  - 9780822374848
AV  - DT650.K66 .C68 2016
KW  - Body language
KW  - Congo (Democratic Republic)
KW  - Dance
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Kongo (African people)
KW  - Communication
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index; Neither native nor stranger : places, encounters, prophecies -- "A war between soldiers and prophets" : embodied resistance in colonial Belgian Congo, 1921 -- Threatening gestures, immoral bodies : Kingunza after Kimbangu -- Dancing with the invisible : everyday performances under Mobutu Sese Seko -- Dancing disorder in Mobutu's Zaire : animation politique and gendered nationalisms -- Bundu dia Kongo and embodied revolutions : performing Kongo pride -- Transforming modern society
UR  - https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019668025
ER  -