Ordinary Violence and Social Change in Africa.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (190 pages)
- Afrika-Studiecentrum Series ; v.31 .
- Afrika-Studiecentrum Series .
Intro -- Ordinary Violence and Social Change in Africa -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Ordinary Violence in Africa -- Changing Life Worlds and Contested Space: Seclusion Practices among the Iraqw of Northern Tanzania -- A Chain of Family and Domestic Violence: Extramarital Pregnancy and Social Rupture in Burkina Faso -- Social Violence and Gender Inequality: Mali's Young Bambara Domestic Workers -- The Itinerant Koranic School: Contested Practice in the History of Religion and Society in Central Chad -- Surviving Structural Violence in Zimbabwe: The Case Study of a Family Coping with Violence -- The Cyclical Exchange of Violence in Congolese Kinship Relations -- Kill the Witch!: Anti-witchcraft Violence in the Central African Republic -- Ordinary Violence towards Street Children (Shegue) in Lubumbashi (D.R.C.) -- The Literary Threads of Domestic Violence in Mali -- Bibliography -- Index.
Ordinary social violence, - recurrent mental or physical aggression occurring between closely related people - structures social relationships. This book presents anthropological case studies from different parts of Africa to show how this 'hidden' violence is essential to understand social change.
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Violence-Africa. Women-Abuse of-Africa. Child abuse-Africa. Family violence-Africa. Marginality, Social-Africa. Social change-Africa. Africa-Social conditions-21st century.