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Body and affect in the intercultural encounter /
The volume draws from René Devisch's encounters with groups in southsaharan Africa, primarily. The author had the privilege to immerse himself, around the clock, in the Yakaphones' activities and thoughts in southwest DR Congo from 1972 to 1974, and intermittently in Kinshasa's shant...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Leiden :
Langaa Research and Publishing Common Iniative Group ; African Studies Centre,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Plates; Preface; 1. Introduction: the co-implication of anthropologists and their hosts; The book and this chapter; The intercultural encounter: perspectives and challenges; The anthropologist and the host groups; Feeling affected and questioned; Ethical commitment and shared humanity; The Yakaphone people; Reciprocal anthropology and innovative research; Reversal of perspectives: seeing here from there; The body-group-world weave; Towards an ontology of resonance and co-naturality; A matrixial understanding of subjectification.
- OverviewPart 1
- The shock of the multicultural; 2. The multicentric world: interview by Jan Van Pelt; 3. In praise of Jean-Marc Ela, advocate of the people of below; 4. Frenzy, violence and ethical renewal in Kinshasa; Method of inquiry; Kinshasa; An orgy of violence and ruptures in the 1990s; The ethical dawn of oniric regeneration; Mimesis ends in exhaustion; The dawn of a new cosmology; Conclusion; Part 2
- Cultural embedding of the body, senses and meaning; 5. A dancing mask, estranged in the museum; The dancing masks; A cult enactment turned into a curio.
- The masculine gaze and its incipient deconstructionThe mask's view upon the observer; 6. Affects and senses in healing; Affliction cults' life-bearing meaning; Blending of sensory capacities; Borderlinking and the dynamic of homeopathy; Conclusion; Part 3
- The moral economy of the intercultural; 7. Salvation of souls: the Belgian masculine missionary; The "civilising mission"; The Belgian missionary endeavour in the Congo; Christian modernisation in the homeland; The missionaries' styles and strategies; Indigenising or the adaptation effort; The assimilation strategy.
- Harmonious association attemptsThe whitening trap; The educational endeavour; Schools and books as subjugation; Different styles of education; The indigenising approach to education; Towards a practical education, but unsuccessful; The association option; Higher learning and university; Epilogue; 8. Anthropology cataloguing classical African medicine; Classical African medicine and health care; Local cultural perspectives on body and health; The life-force and life-flow; The gendering of health; Symptoms and cultural etiology; Diagnosis; Cultural idioms of distress; Divinatory etiology.
- TreatmentAffliction and healing cults; The synergism of healing procedures; Transforming devices and cultural inducers; Conclusion; 9. Plural health care in Kinshasa; The action-research; Research setting; Research techniques; Findings; From data to interpretation; From research to action; Quality of care; Organisation of the healers; Benefits for the community; Collaboration with biomedical care; Cooperation with faith healers; Discussion; Contemporary Congo's shattered mirrors; The lay therapy management group; The mind set of the researchers; Product of Western-derived science; Conclusion.