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
Summary
Ordinary social violence, - recurrent mental or physical aggression occurring between closely related people - structures social relationships. This book presents anthropological case studies from different parts of Africa to show how this 'hidden' violence is essential to understand social change
