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Sex and the Empire That is no More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion. (reprint, 1994).(RELIGION)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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Sex and the empire that is no more; gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion. (reprint, 1994)
Matory, J. Lorand.
Berghahn Books, [c]2005
295 p.
$25.00 (pa)
In the 1994 U. of Minnesota Press edition, Matory (anthropology, African and African American studies, Harvard U.) proposed a "new politics of e...
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