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Title Ordinary violence and social change in Africa / [edited] by Jacky Bouju, Mirjam de Bruijn.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 31
Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 31.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Literary threads of domestic violence in Mali / Sebastien le Potvin.
Summary 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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Subject Violence -- Africa.
Violence.
Africa.
Women -- Abuse of -- Africa.
Women -- Abuse of.
Child abuse -- Africa.
Child abuse.
Family violence -- Africa.
Family violence.
Marginality, Social -- Africa.
Marginality, Social.
Social change -- Africa.
Social change.
Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 21st century
2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Bouju, Jacky, editor, author.
Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962- editor, author.
Other Form: Print version: Ordinary violence and social change in Africa 9789004271555 (DLC) 2014009252 (OCoLC)872222407
ISBN 9789004272569 (electronic book)
9004272569 (electronic book)
1306942438 (e-book)
9781306942430 (e-book)
9789004271555
9004271554