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Author Matory, James Lorand

Title Sex and the empire that is no more : gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion / J. Lorand Matory
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xliv, 295 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 1. Ritual History -- 2. Oyo Renaissance -- 3. Igboho in the Age of Abiola -- 4. Ritual Biography -- 5. Engendering Power: The Mythic and Iconic Foundations of Priestly Action -- 6. Re-dressing Gender -- 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
Summary This historical anthropology narrates how the traditions of Sango and Ogun are carried into and participate in the post-independence political and economical developments, and how they relate to contemporary Islamic and Christian religious streams
Notes Originally published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1994
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-283) and index
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Subject Yoruba (African people) -- Religion.
Sex role -- Nigeria
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Religion
Sex role
Yoruba (African people) -- Religion
Godsdiensten.
Joruba (volk)
Sekseverschillen.
SUBJECT Nigeria -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091886
Subject Nigeria
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781789205947
1789205948