Sex and the Empire That Is No More

Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion

J. Lorand Matory

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9781571813077
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789205947
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Sessualità e genere nella religione

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

Table of contents

• Sex and the Empire that is No More
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface to the 2005 Edition
• Foreword
• Note on Orthography
• Chapter 1. A Ritual History
• Chapter 2. The Oyo Renaissance
• Chapter 3. Igboho in the Age of Abiola
• Chapter 4. A Ritual Biography
• Chapter 5. Engendering Power
• Chapter 6. Re-dressing Gender
• Chapter 7. Conclusion
• Appendix I
• Appendix II
• Appendix III
• Appendix IV
• Appendix V
• Bibliography
• Index