"Divining" the city: rhythm, amalgamation and knotting as forms of "urbanity"
"Divining" the city: rhythm, amalgamation and knotting as forms of "urbanity"
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Taylor & Francis Group
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2015
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Social Dynamics
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Social Dynamics, Vol. 41, No. 1, March 2015, pp. 47-58
Abstract:
Drawing on ethnographies of divinatory systems as well as on mathematical theories of the Möbius strip, this article unravels the complex weaving and knotting together of forms of sociality and survival in urban Congo. Inhabiting the urban, the author argues, requires strategies of amalgamation that resist being mapped linearly.
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CITATION: De Boeck, Filip. "Divining" the city: rhythm, amalgamation and knotting as forms of "urbanity" . : Taylor & Francis Group , 2015. Social Dynamics, Vol. 41, No. 1, March 2015, pp. 47-58 - Available at: https://library.au.int/divining-city-rhythm-amalgamation-and-knotting-forms-urbanity