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Sex and the empire that is no more : gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion
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ISBN: 1571813071 1789205948 9781571813077 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York: Berghahn,

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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

Male daughters, female husbands: gender and sex in an African society
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ISBN: 0862325951 0862325943 9780862325947 9780862325954 9781783603336 178360333X 9781783603343 1783603348 1350221252 Year: 1989 Publisher: London Zed Books

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An early study of queer theory and non-Western feminism, challenging the concept of gender.

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