It's just this animal called culture : regulatory codes and resistant action among Dagara female musicians

This dissertation is an exploration of the African female body as a site of regulation and resistance. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among the Dagara of northwestern Ghana, I illustrate how Dagara women are regulated through narratives of exclusion, through the mobilization of the rhetoric of trad...

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Main Author: Lawrence, Sidra Meredith
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4251