Sex and the Empire That Is No More

Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-57181-307-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matory, J. Lorand

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sexualität & Gender in den Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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

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