TY - BOOK AU - Covington-Ward,Yolanda ED - Project Muse. TI - Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo T2 - The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people SN - 9780822374848 AV - DT650.K66 C68 2016 U1 - 394 23 PB - Duke University Press KW - Dance KW - Social aspects KW - Congo (Democratic Republic) KW - Body language KW - Kongo (African people) KW - Communication KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) 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; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64126/ ER -