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Ordinary violence and social change in Africa /

Ordinary social violence, - recurrent mental or physical aggression occurring between closely related people - structures social relationships. This book presents anthropological case studies from different parts of Africa to show how this 'hidden' violence is essential to understand socia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Bouju, Jacky (Autor, Editor ), Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962- (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, 2014.
Colección:Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 31.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : ordinary violence in Africa / Jacky Bouju and Mirjam de Bruijn
  • Changing life worlds and contested space : seclusion practices among the Iraqw of northern Tanzania / Jonathan Baker and Hege Wallevik
  • A chain of family and domestic violence : extramarital pregnancy and social rupture in Burkina Faso / Fatoumata Ouattara and Katerini Storeng
  • Social violence and gender inequality : Mali's young Bambara domestic workers / Jacky Bouju
  • The itinerant Koranic school : contested practice in the history of religion and society in central Chad / Mirjam de Bruijn
  • Surviving structural violence in Zimbabwe : the case study of a family coping with violence / Otrude N. Moyo
  • The cyclical exchange of violence in Congolese kinship relations / Sylvie Ayimpam
  • Kill the witch! : anti-witchcraft violence in the Central African Republic / Aleksandra Cimpric
  • Ordinary violence towards street children (shegue) in Lubumbashi (D.R.C.) / Olivier Kahola-Tabu
  • The literary threads of domestic violence in Mali / Sebastien le Potvin.