Sex and the Empire That Is No More
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Sex and the Empire That Is No More

Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sex and the Empire That Is No More

Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion

About this book

J. Lorand Matory researches the trans-Atlantic comings and goings of Yoruba religion, as well as ethnic diversity in Black North America. With the support of the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education's Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, he has conducted extensive field research in Brazil, Nigeria, and the United States. Dr. Matory is also the author of Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé (Princeton University Press). He is currently researching a book on the history and experience of Nigerians, Trinidadians, Ethiopians, black Indians, Louisiana Creoles and other ethnic groups that make up black North American society. It focuses on the creative coexistence of these groups at the United States' leading "historically Black university"—Howard University

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Table of contents

  1. Sex and the Empire that is No More
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface to the 2005 Edition
  5. Foreword
  6. Note on Orthography
  7. Chapter 1. A Ritual History
  8. Chapter 2. The Oyo Renaissance
  9. Chapter 3. Igboho in the Age of Abiola
  10. Chapter 4. A Ritual Biography
  11. Chapter 5. Engendering Power
  12. Chapter 6. Re-dressing Gender
  13. Chapter 7. Conclusion
  14. Appendix I
  15. Appendix II
  16. Appendix III
  17. Appendix IV
  18. Appendix V
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index