Ordinary violence and social change in Africa /

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Imprint:Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2014]
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; volume 31
Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 31.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10078472
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Other authors / contributors:Bouju, Jacky, editor of compilation, author.
Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962- editor of compilation, author.
ISBN:9004272569 (electronic bk.)
9789004272569 (electronic bk.)
9789004271555 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9004271554 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 25, 2014).
Other form:Original 9789004271555 9004271554
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : ordinary violence in Africa / Jacky Bouju and Mirjam de Bruijn
  • Changing life worlds and contested space : seclusion practices among the Iraqw of northern Tanzania / Jonathan Baker and Hege Wallevik
  • A chain of family and domestic violence : extramarital pregnancy and social rupture in Burkina Faso / Fatoumata Ouattara and Katerini Storeng
  • Social violence and gender inequality : Mali's young Bambara domestic workers / Jacky Bouju
  • The itinerant Koranic school : contested practice in the history of religion and society in central Chad / Mirjam de Bruijn
  • Surviving structural violence in Zimbabwe : the case study of a family coping with violence / Otrude N. Moyo
  • The cyclical exchange of violence in Congolese kinship relations / Sylvie Ayimpam
  • Kill the witch! : anti-witchcraft violence in the Central African Republic / Aleksandra Cimpric
  • Ordinary violence towards street children (shegue) in Lubumbashi (D.R.C.) / Olivier Kahola-Tabu
  • The literary threads of domestic violence in Mali / Sebastien le Potvin.