An Intimate Rebuke Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa

Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women - the Mothers - make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse an...

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Váldodahkki: Grillo, Laura S. (auth)
Materiálatiipa: Elektrovnnalaš Girjji oassi
Giella:eaŋgalasgiella
Almmustuhtton: Durham, NC Duke University Press 2018
Ráidu:Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
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