An Intimate Rebuke
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 an...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-304422025-07-30T17:24:38Z An Intimate Rebuke Grillo, Laura S. Anthropology Africa Civilization Africa Religion Africa Politics and Government Postcolonialism Africa Ethics, Comparative Sex Role thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-03-08 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:36 2020-04-01T10:48:46Z 2018-11-01 book 1004321 OCN: 1100529503 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25767 9781478002635 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30442 eng Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25767/1/1004321.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25767/1/1004321.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25767/1/1004321.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25767/1/1004321.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25767/1/1004321.pdf Duke University Press 8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781478002635 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books Durham, NC 102071 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books open access |
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