E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity
E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
ISBN: 978-1-137-52125-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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Introduction: Exhuming Subjugated Knowledge and Liberating Marginalized Epistemes
1. Divining knowledge: The Man Question in Ifá
2. (Re)Casting the Yorùbá World: Ifá, Ìyá and the Signification of Difference
3. Matripotency: Ìyá in Philosophical Concempts and Socio-Policial Institutions
4. Writing and Gendering the Past: Akwé and the Endogenous Production of History
5. The Gender Dictaters: Making Gender Attributions in Religion and Culture
6. Towards a Genealogy of Gender, Gendered Names, and Naming Practices
7. The Poetry of Weeping Brides: The Role and Impact of Marriage Residence in the Making of Praise Names
8. Changing Names: The Roles of Christianity and Islam in Making Yorùbá Names Kosher for the Modern World
Conclusion: Motherhood in the Quest for Social Transformation
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