{"product_id":"sex-and-the-empire-that-is-no-more-gender-and-the-politics-of-metaphor-in-oyo-yoruba-religion-9781571813077","title":"Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eJ. Lorand Matory\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBlack Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé\u003c\/i\u003e (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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSecond edition, with a new introduction by the Author\u003c\/b\u003e \t\t\t \t\t \t  \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"Matory's ethnography commands serious respect. His centralthesis concerning the gendering of power relations in the Oyo Empire, and its continuing expression in the cult of Sango, is brilliant and original. The symbolic analysis of contemporary initiation to the Sango cult ... shows real virtuosity ... [Also] of great value is his account of the state of religious heterogeneity in Oyo North. This book should make a significant mark outside the field of Yoruba studies, in the anthropology of gender at large.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · J.D.Y. Peel\u003c\/b\u003e, FBA, University of London\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"An exemplary exercise in historical anthropology ... with interpretive and forensic skill [the author] narrates how the traditions of Sango and Ogun are carried into and participate inthe post-independence political and economical developments, and how they relate to contemporary Islamic and Christian religious streams.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · Stanley J. Tambiah\u003c\/b\u003e, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"A bold and innovative study of the interplay between gender,power and religion. Its relevance to feminist theory is unquestionable ... Gender categories and all that is associated with them are changed by the negotiation of politically interested actors, both male and female ... It situates itself within a 'mythic' paradigm which, the author argues, is close to indigenous conceptualizations of the past and present; but at the same time it is unmistakably located in the real, hybrid and confusing world of contemporary Nigeria, and not in some idealized world of 'tradition'.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · Karin Barber\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Birmingham\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"[Matory's] richly argued text, strong with insight, strong with documents, is a classic in Yoruba studies.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · Robert F. Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“This second edition of the seminal [book] seems more salient in retrospect as the international interest in orisha worship and the meaning of transatlantic aesthetics that claim a Yoruba ancestry increases…Along with his theoretical guidance, Matory provides rich procedural, ritual detail that contextualizes the multifaceted aspect of orisha worship for specific sets of completed ritual communities.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · International Journal of African Historical Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tForeword\u003cbr\u003e \tNote on Orthography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eA Ritual History\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Oyo Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eIgboho in the Age of Abiola\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eA Ritual Biography\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eEngendering Power: The Mythic and Iconic Foundations of Priestly Action\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eRe-dressing Gender\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eConclusion: Dialogue, Debate, and the \u003cem\u003eChose du Texte\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix I: \u003c\/strong\u003eOriki Yemoja (Yemoja Panegyrics)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix II:\u003c\/strong\u003e A Partial Genealogy of the Oyeboode Priests\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix III:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yemoja in the Kingdom of Sango: The Ritual Calendar\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix IV: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSango Pipe\u003c\/em\u003e (Sango Panegyrics)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix V: \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Naming Ceremony\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041416642903,"sku":"9781571813077","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571813077.jpg?v=1750950185","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sex-and-the-empire-that-is-no-more-gender-and-the-politics-of-metaphor-in-oyo-yoruba-religion-9781571813077","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}