Y Covington-Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 15536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Y Covington-Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Covington-Ward |
| SIGNATURE | COVINGTON-WARD Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6312-2265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Roots and sprouts
Embodiment and Relationality in Religions of Africa and Its Diasporas
Melodically rocking Sufi bodies remember God on a former plantation in South Carolina, reconnecting with ancestors and an imagined homeland. Dancers in Martinique use the sound of the bl drum to achieve emotional transcendence and resist alienation caused by centuries of French assimilation. Devotees of Mama Tchamba in Togo use shuffling steps, dress, and ritual to placate the spirits of formerly enslaved people from the North whom their own ance…
Exceptional Healing
Bodily Burdens
This article uses Leith Mullings’s intersectional approach to health disparities combined with a novel focus on the impact of direct care jobs on workers’ bodies in order to illuminate the everyday experiences of African immigrant direct health care workers in the Greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The research for this article is based on thirty interviews with African immigrant direct care workers conducted in 2014. Specifically, by examinin…
The New American Servitude
Temporality, social interaction, and power in an anthropology of gesture
Current anthropological studies of gesture give extensive attention to communities of study from a synchronic perspective while also focusing on semantic, cognitive, and linguistic analyses of gesture. However, less well explored is how the uses and meanings of gestures can change over time within societies and the role of gesture in social interactions. In addition, individual, interpersonal, and societal level politics can also influence what g…
Back Home, People Say America is Heaven
African Immigrants in Low-Wage Direct Health Care
Gesture and Power
Roberts, Allen F
Anthropos , Seite 737 - 738
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
Your Name Is Written in the Sky”
This article explores the history of Kongo female prophets in the colonial-era kingunza (prophetic) movement between 1921 and 1960 in the Lower Congo region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. While much of the literature on the kingunza movement focuses on male prophets, especially Simon Kimbangu, I use multiple sources such as colonial reports, missionary correspondence, and oral interviews of Congolese themselves to show that women also were …
Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Abako, and Performances of Kongo Nationalism in the Independence of Congo
When most people think about the Belgian Congo and its path to independence on June 30, 1960, the figure that most frequently comes to mind is that of Patrice Lumumba and his strategy of uniting people across different ethnic groups. While Lumumba’s contributions have been well documented and recognized, this essay argues that the Kongo ethnic association–turned–political party, ABAKO (Association des BaKongo), and its leader Joseph Kasa-Vubu, we…
Danced Nations, Performed Identities
White Men's God
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything
South Bronx Performances
(2006). South Bronx Performances: The Reciprocal Relationship Between Hip-Hop and Black Girls’ Musical Play. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 16, Recall & Response: Black Women Performers & the Mapping of Memory, pp. 119-134
Back Home, People Say America is Heaven
Temporality, social interaction, and power in an anthropology of gesture
Current anthropological studies of gesture give extensive attention to communities of study from a synchronic perspective while also focusing on semantic, cognitive, and linguistic analyses of gesture. However, less well explored is how the uses and meanings of gestures can change over time within societies and the role of gesture in social interactions. In addition, individual, interpersonal, and societal level politics can also influence what g…
Your Name Is Written in the Sky”
This article explores the history of Kongo female prophets in the colonial-era kingunza (prophetic) movement between 1921 and 1960 in the Lower Congo region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. While much of the literature on the kingunza movement focuses on male prophets, especially Simon Kimbangu, I use multiple sources such as colonial reports, missionary correspondence, and oral interviews of Congolese themselves to show that women also were …
South Bronx Performances
(2006). South Bronx Performances: The Reciprocal Relationship Between Hip-Hop and Black Girls’ Musical Play. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 16, Recall & Response: Black Women Performers & the Mapping of Memory, pp. 119-134
Prayer Has Spoiled Everything
White Men's God
Danced Nations, Performed Identities
Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Abako, and Performances of Kongo Nationalism in the Independence of Congo
When most people think about the Belgian Congo and its path to independence on June 30, 1960, the figure that most frequently comes to mind is that of Patrice Lumumba and his strategy of uniting people across different ethnic groups. While Lumumba’s contributions have been well documented and recognized, this essay argues that the Kongo ethnic association–turned–political party, ABAKO (Association des BaKongo), and its leader Joseph Kasa-Vubu, we…
Roberts, Allen F
Anthropos , Seite 737 - 738
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
Your Name Is Written in the Sky”
This article explores the history of Kongo female prophets in the colonial-era kingunza (prophetic) movement between 1921 and 1960 in the Lower Congo region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. While much of the literature on the kingunza movement focuses on male prophets, especially Simon Kimbangu, I use multiple sources such as colonial reports, missionary correspondence, and oral interviews of Congolese themselves to show that women also were …
Gesture and Power
African Immigrants in Low-Wage Direct Health Care
Back Home, People Say America is Heaven
Temporality, social interaction, and power in an anthropology of gesture
Current anthropological studies of gesture give extensive attention to communities of study from a synchronic perspective while also focusing on semantic, cognitive, and linguistic analyses of gesture. However, less well explored is how the uses and meanings of gestures can change over time within societies and the role of gesture in social interactions. In addition, individual, interpersonal, and societal level politics can also influence what g…
The New American Servitude
Embodiment and Relationality in Religions of Africa and Its Diasporas
Melodically rocking Sufi bodies remember God on a former plantation in South Carolina, reconnecting with ancestors and an imagined homeland. Dancers in Martinique use the sound of the bl drum to achieve emotional transcendence and resist alienation caused by centuries of French assimilation. Devotees of Mama Tchamba in Togo use shuffling steps, dress, and ritual to placate the spirits of formerly enslaved people from the North whom their own ance…
Exceptional Healing
Bodily Burdens
This article uses Leith Mullings’s intersectional approach to health disparities combined with a novel focus on the impact of direct care jobs on workers’ bodies in order to illuminate the everyday experiences of African immigrant direct health care workers in the Greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The research for this article is based on thirty interviews with African immigrant direct care workers conducted in 2014. Specifically, by examinin…
Roots and sprouts
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works)