Body and Affect in the Intercultural Encounter

The volume draws from Ren� Devisch�s encounters with groups in southsaharan Africa, primarily. The author had the privilege to immerse himself, around the clock, in the Yakaphones� activities and thoughts in southwest DR Congo from 1972 to 1974, and intermittently in Kinshasa�s shanty towns, from 1986 to 2003. The author first examines what sparked his choice to come to Congo, and then to pursue r...