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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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Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion. By J. Lorand Matory. second edition. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. Pp. xliii, 295; 18 figures. $25.95 / £17.00 paper.
This second edition of the seminal Sex and the Empire That Is No More by J. Lorand Matory seems more salient in retrospect as the international interest in orisha worship and the meaning of transatlantic aesthetics that claim a Yoruba ancestry increases. This ne...
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Journey Through the Land of Revolutions
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FROM CUBA, WITH LOVE STAGE ARTISTS FROM HAVANA TEACH YOUNG RAINIER VALLEY ACTORS THE JOYS OF RACIAL TOLERANCE.(Life and Arts)
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; Byline: JOE ADCOCK P-I theater critic Xiomara Calderon is black. She is also Hispanic. Just the person to foster tolerance and mutual appreciation in a society where blacks and Hispanics have an uneasy record that includes resentment and even gang warfare. Calderon, a Cuban, is a theater director.
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MEDIA WATCH: `New York Undercover' insults Yoruba religion
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; Abiola Sinclair New York Amsterdam News 04-15-1995 MEDIA WATCH: `New York Undercover' insults Yoruba religion. Perhaps it was too good to be true, a New York-based action ...
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The Gantt Report
Westside Gazette
; Yorubas in Miami, the State of Florida and around the world are saddened by the passing of Chief Apesin Araba. Chief Silo Crespo, Apesin Araba of Lagos, was a resident of the Overtown community in Miami Dade County. Recognized worldwide as the Apesin Araba of Lagos, Baba Omi Ademi, Chief Silo
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New Chief in town
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; Gantt, Lucius Miami Times 08-28-2001 New Chief in town He received his initiation into the Yoruba Culture in 1971. After an extensive period of study and preparation, Crespo traveled to Lagos, Nigeria in the year 2000, where he received his designation as Chief in order to continue his development
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; This is an innovative ritual history of the Rendering of power relations in the former Oyo Empire and its current practices in the possession cults in Igboho, an Oyo North town in Nigeria where the author did fieldwork during the 1980s. Matory introduces this study with the hypothesis that the Oyo
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