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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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
African Studies Centre,
[2017]
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| 505 | 0 | |a Preface, Koen Stroeken -- 1. Introduction : the co-implication of anthropologists and their hosts -- part 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 -- part 2. Cultural embedding of the body, senses and meaning -- 5. A dancing mask, estranged in the museum -- 6. Affects and senses in healing -- part 3. The moral economy of the intercultural -- 7. Salvation of souls: the Belgian masculine missionary -- 8. Anthropology cataloguing classical African medicine / René Devisch and Mbonyinkebe Sebahire -- 9. Plural health care in Kinshasa / René Devisch, Lapika Dimonfu, Jaak Le Roy and Peter Crossman. | |
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| 520 | |a 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 shanty towns, from 1986 to 2003. The author first examines what sparked his choice to come to Congo, and then to pursue research among the Yakaphones in the borderland with Angola. He then invites us to follow the trajectory of his plural anthropological view on today's multicentric world. It leads us to his praise for honorary doctor Jean-Marc Ela's work. He then examines the proletarian outbursts of violence that rocked Congo's major cities in 1991 and 1993. These can be read as a settling of scores with the disillusioning colonial and missionary modernisation, along with president Mobutu's millenarian Popular Movement of the Revolution. Furthermore, after considering the morose reduction of a major Yaka dancing mask into a mere museum-bound curio in Antwerp, the book unravels the Yakaphones' perspectives on spirits and sorcery's threat. It also analyses their commitment to classical Bantu-African healing cults, along with their parallel consulting physicians and healers. By sharing the Yakaphones' life-world, the analysis highlights their body-group-world weave, interlaced by the principle of co-resonance. A phenomenological and perspectivist look unfolds the local actors' views, thereby disclosing the Bantu-African genius and setting for a major reversal of perspectives. Indeed, seeing 'here' from 'there' allows the author to uncover some alienating dynamics at work in his native Belgian Flemish-speaking culture. To better grasp the realm of life beyond the speakable and factual reasoning, the approach occasionally turns to the later Lacan's focus on the unconscious desire, the body and its affects. The book addresses students and researchers in the humanities and, more broadly, all those immersed in the heat of the encounter with the culturally different. | ||
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