@Book{687661064,
author="Imeh, Imo Nse",
title="Daughters of seclusion: the revelation of the Ibibio ``fattened bride'' as the icon of beauty and power",
series="Black studies {\&} critical thinking v. 29",
year="2012",
publisher="Peter Lang",
address="New York",
keywords="Women, Ibibio; Nigeria; History; Initiation rite; Admission age; Social life and customs",
contents="The puppet and the girlTime : a culture of initiation and aesthetics of seclusion -- Ekuk Mbopo -- Nwo-nwo : the seclusion of little girls -- Ekuk Mbopo at the Ebiene Atai village -- The school for womanhood -- Transformation : Mbopo as the portrayer/progenitor of sanguinity and extravagance -- Body inscriptions and the wellness performance -- Adorning comfort -- Transition : from the enclosure to the marketplace : indelible marks of femininity -- Impressions of seclusion -- The clitoridectomy rite -- The staging of a female icon -- The scepter and the flywhisk : Mbopo theatre, corporeal dialogues, and the revelation of the bride -- Mechanisms in Uyai : rewriting her body with accouterments of beauty and power -- Power symbols -- The crest and the crown -- The Uyai anointing -- Mbopo nation : returnee mbopo and the emergence of objective interpretation -- The story of Akon Ekwere -- Contemporary iterations and bride residue.",
note="Imo Nse Imeh",
note="Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-306) and index",
isbn="9781433115325",
language="English"
}