(Un)doing Gender: The Ethnographic Significance of Mbube Dirge.

Although studies on death and dirge abound, there are fewer studies examining how gendered constructions are enabled in dirge rendition. This article examines how dirge performers in the Mbube communities of northern Cross River State, south-eastern Nigeria extend the dirge beyond mourning to do gen...

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Publicado en:African Studies Vol. 83; no. 1; pp. 40 - 57
Autores principales: Aboh, Romanus, Akung, Jonas, Ojima, Nathaniel
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2024
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