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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 31.
Main Authors:	Bouju, Jacky (Author, Editor) Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962- (Author, Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Brill, [2014]
Series:	Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 31.
Subjects:	Violence > Africa. Women > Abuse of > Africa. Child abuse > Africa. Family violence > Africa. Marginality, Social > Africa. Social change > Africa. Africa > Social conditions > 21st century.
Physical Description:	ix, 180 pages ; 24 cm.
Format:	Book

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
The 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
The 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
The literary threads of domestic violence in Mali / Sebastien le Potvin.