J. Lorand Matory

Sex and the Empire That Is No More (eBook, PDF)

Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789205947
• Artikelnr.: 56706960

Autorenporträt

J. Lorand Matory is Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
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: The Mythic and Iconic Foundations of Priestly
Action
Chapter 6. Re-dressing Gender
Chapter 7. Conclusion: Dialogue, Debate, and the Chose du Texte
Appendix I: Oriki Yemoja (Yemoja Panegyrics)
Appendix II: A Partial Genealogy of the Oyeboode Priests
Appendix III: Yemoja in the Kingdom of Sango: The Ritual Calendar
Appendix IV: Sango Pipe (Sango Panegyrics)
Appendix V: The Naming Ceremony
Bibliography