TY - BOOK ID - 33270541 TI - An intimate rebuke : female genital power in ritual and politics in Côte d'Ivoire PY - 2018 SN - 9781478001201 1478001208 9781478001553 1478001550 1478002638 PB - Durham, NC Duke University Press DB - UniCat KW - Older women KW - Generative organs, Female KW - Religious life KW - Political activity KW - Symbolic aspects KW - Religious aspects KW - Political aspects KW - Côte d'Ivoire KW - Religion. KW - Female generative organs KW - Female generative tract KW - Female genital tract KW - Female genitalia KW - Female reproductive system KW - Female reproductive tract KW - Generative organs KW - Aged women KW - Older people KW - Women KW - Ivory Coast KW - Costa d'Avorio KW - Elfenbeinküste KW - Territoire de la Côte d'Ivoire KW - République de la Côte d'Ivoire KW - Republic of Ivory Coast KW - Republic of the Ivory Coast KW - République de Côte d'Ivoire KW - Kot d'Ivuar KW - Republic of Côte d'Ivoire KW - Costa de Marfil KW - Ivoire, Côte d' KW - Bereg Slonovoĭ Kosti KW - Panté Gadéng KW - Ivoorkus KW - Republiek van Côte d'Ivoire KW - Elfebeikischte KW - Elpendbānrīma KW - Costa de Vori KW - Republica de Costa de Vori KW - Costa de Bori KW - Couta d'Ivouèro KW - Fil Dişi Sahili KW - Fil Dişi Sahili Respublikası KW - Кот д'Івуар KW - Рэспубліка Кот д'Івуар KW - Rėspublika Kot d'Ivuar KW - Obala Slonovače KW - Republika Obala Slonovače KW - Кот д'Ивоар KW - Kot d'Ivoar KW - Република Кот д'Ивоар KW - Republika Kot d'Ivoar KW - コートジボワール KW - Kōto Jibowāru KW - Kōtojibowāru KW - 象牙海岸共和国 KW - Kōto Jibowāru Kyōwakoku KW - Kōtojibowāru Kyōwakoku KW - コートジボアール KW - Kōtojiboāru KW - #SBIB:39A10 KW - #SBIB:39A11 KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij KW - Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Religious aspects. KW - Anthropology KW - Africa KW - Civilization Africa KW - Religion Africa KW - Politics and Government Postcolonialism KW - Africa Ethics, Comparative Sex Role UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33270541 AB - Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women — the Mothers — make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse and expel the forces of evil. In An Intimate Rebuke Laura S. Grillo draws on fieldwork in Côte d’Ivoire that spans three decades to illustrate how these rituals of Female Genital Power (FGP) constitute religious and political responses to abuses of power. When deployed in secret FGP operates as spiritual warfare against witchcraft; in public it serves as a political activism. During Côte d’Ivoire’s civil wars FGP challenged the immoral forces of both rebels and the state. Grillo shows how the ritual potency of the Mothers’ nudity and the conjuration of their sex embodies a moral power that has been foundational to West African civilization. ER -