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1 online resource. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 31
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Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 31.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Violence -- Africa.
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Violence. |
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Africa. |
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Women -- Abuse of -- Africa.
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Women -- Abuse of. |
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Child abuse -- Africa.
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Child abuse. |
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Family violence -- Africa.
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Family violence. |
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Marginality, Social -- Africa.
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Marginality, Social. |
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Social change -- Africa.
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Social change. |
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Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Social conditions. |
Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000-2099 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
Added Author |
Bouju, Jacky, editor, author.
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Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962- editor, author.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Ordinary violence and social change in Africa 9789004271555 (DLC) 2014009252 (OCoLC)872222407 |
ISBN |
9789004272569 (electronic book) |
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9004272569 (electronic book) |
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1306942438 (e-book) |
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9781306942430 (e-book) |
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9789004271555 |
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9004271554 |
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