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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
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...
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Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country: Memorials of Anna Hinderer, Wife of the Rev. David Hinderer, C.M.S. Missionary in Western Africa (paperback)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
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Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country: Memorials of Anna Hinderer (hardcover)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$36.95
Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country: Memorials of Anna Hinderer ... Gathered From Her Journals and Letters. With an Introduction by Richard B. Hone (paperback)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$24.95
Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country. Memorials of Anna Hinderer
Compiled by Anna Martin Hinderer, with additions by C.A. and D. Hone, Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country is a fascinating memoir of Anna's time living and working among the Yoruba people in Nigeria in the late 19th century. This...
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Santeria: The Definitive Guide to Cuban Santeria, Orishas, Yoruba History and the Rules for Becoming Iyawò
Want to know the secrets of Cuban santeria? Do you want to cultivate your spiritual energy? Do you want to discover which is your Orisha? Hundreds of years ago, the Yoruba people of Nigeria and West Africa were brought to...
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Sanctity of Human Life in the Old Testament and Yoruba Worldview
Globally, the rate at which people violate the sanctity of human life at this time is alarming. Terrorism, assassination, kidnapping, human trafficking, and abortion are a few instances of this phenomenon. This study concerns itself with the inconsistency between the...
$83.00
Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba
In this magisterial book, J. D. Y. Peel contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is...
$44.00
Religion yoruba, La (Spanish Edition)
Santeria -mix of catholic and black slave and how the Yoruba religion was able to survive under the radar.
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Raíces Entretejidas: España y Cuba. religión yoruba (Spanish Edition)
Raíces Entretejidas, es una exploración que sumerge al lector en la fascinante conexión entre España y Cuba, desentrañando los misterios del sincretismo religioso que dio origen a la religión yoruba en la isla caribeña. A través de la mirada apasionada...
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Proverbs of a Highly Inspired Yoruba Man
Historically Yorùbá proverbs have been used to communicate the weight of words and how important it is to look beyond what meets the eyes generally. Popularly said is "Òwe l'ẹşin ọrọ" loosely meaning 'Proverbs are the horse with which words...
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Proverbs of a Highly Inspired Yoruba Man
Historically Yorùbá proverbs have been used to communicate the weight of words and how important it is to look beyond what meets the eyes generally. Popularly said is "Òwe l'ẹşin ọrọ" loosely meaning 'Proverbs are the horse with which words...
$19.99
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I. B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts (African Sources for African History, 12)
First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, "The Life Story of Me, Segilola" caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risqué escapades,...
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Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I. B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts (African Sources for African History, 12)
First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, "The Life Story of Me, Segilola" caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risqué escapades,...
$122.00
Princess Aina: Queen Victoria's Yoruba Godchild
Born to the chief of the Yoruba Egbado Tribe in Oke-Odan, Aina survived a raid by King Ghezo of Dahomey at a young age. Before the king could use her for a religious sacrifice, Captain Frederick E. Forbes negotiated her...
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PRIMEROS PASOS EN LA SANTERIA: RELIGION YORUBA (spanish edition)
Después de haber servido mas de treinta años en Cuba, el autor, después de problemas de salud, ha recibido el apoyo de la religión yoruba, más conocida como Santería.La religión yoruba está muy extendida en Africa y América Latina, practicada...
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Prieto
This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto's story...
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Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions (hardcover)
This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto's story...
$144.00
A Portrait of Osun, A Yoruba Goddess in Osogbo and the Americas: A Yoruba Goddess
This book provides us with more information about Osun Osogbo and Osun in Americas. Our three areas of study are myth as a form of oral literature and poetic elements for religious studies; the Osun annual festival in Osogbo and...
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Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town
Elisha Renne focuses on things associated with the human body -- such as houses, graves, hymens, blood, and bones -- as a concrete means for analyzing new ideas of fertility in an Ekiti Yoruba town in Southwestern Nigeria. By looking...
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Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town (International African Library)
This study of local perceptions of population and development in a rural southwestern Nigerian town questions some of the underlying assumptions of the demographic theory of fertility transition. Fertility transition theory and modernization theory from which it derives have not...
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Political Organization and Religious Belief Among the Yoruba People of Nigeria
Richard Edward Dennett was born in Valparaiso, Chile in 1857. He was the son of Reverend R. Dennett MA DCL (1829 to 1908), who was a rector and private patron of Ashton Church near Chudleigh, Devon, for sixteen years from...
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A Pilgrimage To My Motherland: An Account Of A Journey Among The Egbas And Yorubas Of Central Africa, In 1859-60
"A Pilgrimage To My Motherland"" is a travelogue written by Robert Campbell, recounting his journey among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa in 1859-60. The book provides a detailed account of Campbell's experiences, observations, and encounters with the people,...
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A Pilgrimage To My Motherland: An Account Of A Journey Among The Egbas And Yorubas Of Central Africa, In 1859-60
A Pilgrimage To My Motherland is a non-fiction book written by Robert Campbell, originally published in 1861. The book is an account of Campbell's journey among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa in 1859-60. Campbell was a Scottish missionary...
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A Pilgrimage To My Motherland: An Account Of A Journey Among The Egbas And Yorubas Of Central Africa, In 1859-60
A Pilgrimage To My Motherland: An Account Of A Journey Among The Egbas And Yorubas Of Central Africa, In 1859-60 (1861) is a book written by Robert Campbell. The book is a detailed account of the author's journey to his...
$23.95
A Pilgrimage To My Motherland: An Account Of A Journey Among The Egbas And Yorubas Of Central Africa, In 1859-60 (1861)
""A Pilgrimage To My Motherland"" is a travelogue written by Robert Campbell, detailing his journey among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa in 1859-60. Campbell provides a vivid account of his experiences, describing the people, customs, and landscapes he...
$38.95
A Pilgrimage to My Motherland: An Account of a Journey Among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa, in 1859-60
This travelogue is a fascinating account of Robert Campbell's journey through Central Africa in the late 19th century. Campbell provides a detailed description of his encounters with the Egba and Yoruba people, their culture, and customs. He reflects on the...
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A Pilgrimage to my Motherland: An Account of a Journey Among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa, in 1859-60 (paperback)
A Pilgrimage to my Motherland - An Account of a Journey Among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa, in 1859-60 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1861. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different...
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A Pilgrimage to My Motherland. An Account of a Journay Among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa, in 1859-60
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$22.98