... areas of everyday life in rural Luozi territory: schools, businesses, and churches. animation politique coercion Mobutu nationalism civil religion This chapter explores the localized effects of national policies of animation politique on BisiKongo women living in Luozi Territory...

... African American ethnographer reflexivity Luozi body ...

... women morality Mobutu Luozi force authority ...

...Performative Encounters, Political Bodies This chapter provides an extended discussion of the research methodology used in the study and describes two primary research sites—Kinshasa, the capital city, and Luozi, a small town on the rural periphery of Bas-Congo province. Approached...

... This chapter provides an extended discussion of the research methodology used in the study and describes two primary research sites—Kinshasa, the capital city, and Luozi, a small town on the rural periphery of Bas-Congo province. Approached reflexively, this chapter explores how a young African...

... This chapter explores the localized effects of national policies of animation politique on BisiKongo women living in Luozi Territory in postcolonial Zaire. This chapter focuses on the lived and gendered experiences of animation politique to demonstrate that coerced performances are an often...

... This chapter outlines the politics, shifting meanings, and uses of Kongo embodied practices through an analysis of performative encounters in two time periods: 1934 to 1936, and the mid- to late 1950s in Luozi territory. This chapter examines the kingunza movements after the arrest...

... in the relationship of embodied cultural performances to political authority, in particular from the early 1970s to the 1990s. Using interviews and archival documents, this chapter examines the impact of animation politique in three major areas of everyday life in rural Luozi territory: schools, businesses...

... This chapter outlines the politics, shifting meanings, and uses of Kongo embodied practices through an analysis of performative encounters in two time periods: 1934 to 1936, and the mid- to late 1950s in Luozi territory. This chapter examines the kingunza movements after the arrest and imprisonment of Simon...