AFRC 355 - Women and Ritual in Africa

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Blakely. This course will focus on ritual events of Bahemba of eastern Zaire using written, audio, and film texts from the instructor's archive (developed over several years of field research in the region) and ritual events documented by other researchers in west, central, southern, and east Africa. Topics to be considered include how gender roles are constituted and experienced through African ritual, the significance of spirit possession and spirit mediumship to folk practitioners, the aesthetics of African ritual, dimensions of women's ritual power in Africa, and women's ritual leadership through different life cycle stages.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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