Social Science
Social Science
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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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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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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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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The Oral Traditions in ILE –IFE: The Yoruba People And Their Book Of Enlightenment
This research monograph discusses the understudied and often misunderstood aspects of West African culture and religion especially that of the Yoruba people and their Book of Enlightenment (Ife-Ifa) together with its metaphysical importance to the Yoruba as a source of...
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Oduduwa's Chain: Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic (hardcover)
Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa’s Chain, Andrew Apter explores a wide range of fascinating historical and ethnographic examples...
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Oduduwa's Chain: Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic
Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa’s Chain, Andrew Apter explores a wide range of fascinating historical and ethnographic examples...
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White Boy/Black Girl: What Our Differences Can Teach Us, One Honest Conversation at a Time (Coming Soon-September 17, 2024)
Let the Awkward Conversations Begin!Adaeze and Chad―two different people, two different backgrounds―both brought a lot of baggage into their relationship. Adaeze, a black Nigerian American woman who has lived with racism and discrimination her entire life. Chad, a white man with a...
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My Hair Can (Coming soon- September 3, 2024)
Celebrate what your hair can do! This joyful, rhyming picture book invites diverse girls and boys to embrace their natural hair with an uplifting reminder of their self-worth.My hair has roots from many places under the sun,telling the story of...
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Every Where Alien (coming soon-August 13, 2024)
ISBN: 9780063377998ISBN 10: 0063377993Imprint: AmistadOn Sale: August 13, 2024
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethunem(Coming Soon-July 23, 2024 )
An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberationWhen Mary McLeod...
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House Party (Coming Soon, June 27, 2023)
Ten bestselling, critically acclaimed authors deliver a fresh novel of interconnected stories that follows a group of young adults over the course of a few wild, transformative hours at an epic house party!The biggest event of the year is happening,...
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Control
Six talented but dangerously toxic personalities in the entertainment hotbed of Atlanta push their psychologist to her own vulnerable limits – and maybe beyond – in this enthralling, knife-edged thriller from NAACP Image Award-winning author Omar Tyree.Dr. Victoria Benning knows...
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Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People (Coming Soon- May 28, 2024)
Isn't anarchy just chaos? How could it possibly relate to Christianity? Countless people, including (and sometimes especially) those from religious backgrounds, are exploring radical ideas. The pandemic, the Black liberation movement, climate disaster--all these concerns are leading us to ask,...
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Masquerading Politics: Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town
In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. John Thabiti Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions in the Yoruba town of Otta, exploring transformations in performers, performances,...
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Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities
Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Òyótúnjí African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yorùbá Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles...
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Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities
Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Òyótúnjí African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yorùbá Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles...
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The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing is intended to be the first of many treatises written to examine the life, theories, and contributions of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. Some of these writings will...
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Fetha Nagast: Law of the Kings
Ethiopian ancient law; governing the royalty, nobility, and clergy of Ethiopia for centuries.
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
“One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and King's Why We Can't Wait." ―The New York Times Book ReviewToni Morrison...
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Kingdoms of the Yoruba (Studies in African History)
Originally published in 1969 and as a second edition in 1976, this book gives a general account of the major Yoruba kingdoms and provides a synthesis of Yoruba and Igbomina history, culture and archaeology. The reasons for, and the chronology...
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Intermediate Yoruba: Language, Culture, Literature, and Religious Beliefs, Part II
Intermediate Yoruba offers an effective guide to mastering Yoruba quickly and easily, written in the proper Yoruba-Oyo, by author Abraham Ajibade Adeleke, who was born and raised in Oyo Alaafin. Yoruba grammar is best taught in the context of the Yoruba...
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An Integrative Notion of Punishment in Traditional Yoruba culture: An hermeneutics discourse
Punishment constitutes a means of maintaining social order. But the traditional justification of punishment, utilitarian and retributive, is challenged by proportional gravitation and the aversion to punishing the innocent, among others. Thus this book addresses these problems, through the aid...
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INDIGO TEXTILE DYEING IN SOME SELECTED YORUBA TOWNS IN NIGERIA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
INDIGO TEXTILE DYEING IN SOME SELECTED YORUBA TOWNS IN NIGERIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY is based on the technology behind the indigo textile dyeing in some selected towns in South-western Nigeria from the anthropological perspective. It furthers compared the processes of...
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner, told in his own words as related at his trial, is an inspiring and powerful account of the leader of the most significant slave rebellion in American history. A gripping and vivid narrative of Turner's...
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The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate
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The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate
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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The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate
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The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate
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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A History of the Yoruba People
A History of the Yoruba People is a comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. With a population of nearly 40 million spread across Western Africa - and diaspora communities in...
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