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 AV - DT650.K66 C68 2016 U1 - 394 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Kongo (African people) KW - Communication KW - Body language KW - Congo (Democratic Republic) KW - Dance KW - Social aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references 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://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4412754 ER -