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Postcolonial Imbusa
Bemba Women’s Agency and Indigenous Cultural Systems
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2023
Summary
Imbusa, a rite of passage for marriage among the Bemba people of Zambia, is one of the most salient and resilient rituals that shapes and informs the private and public life. It is one of the most formidable cultural forces that defines behaviors and determines everyday relations between women and men at home, church, and work. Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women’s Agency, and Indigenous Cultural Systems by Mutale Mulenga Kaunda offers a glimpse into the lived imbusa and how the teaching proposes women’s agency and subjectivity. Mulenga Kaunda argues that the salience and resilience of imbusa, despite the contact with various cultures and religions, makes it a critical feminist decolonial resource for constructing life-giving postcolonial womanism. Through combined interviews and philosophical analysis, this book discovers how the knowledge of imbusa was produced and how such knowledge constitutes postcolonial and decolonial nego-feminism.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-2624-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-2625-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
166
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Coloniality of Imbusa No access Pages 13 - 26
Locating Bemba Women in The Copperbelt Province No access Pages 27 - 46
Precolonial Indigenous Imbusa Teachings No access Pages 47 - 64
Postcolonizing Imbusa No access Pages 65 - 88
Bemba Women and Imbusa in Corporate or Public Spheres No access Pages 89 - 112
Bemba Women, Imbusa, and Marriage No access Pages 113 - 136
