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Item Metadata only Afro-Atlantic Culture: On the Live Dialogue between Africa and the Americas(Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 1999) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access Contradiction and Forgetting in Yewéssey Culture(Transforming Anthropology, 2001-07) Matory, J LorandAnthropologists are now inescapably aware of conflict, contradiction, and negotiation in even the most seemingly "traditional" socio-cultural orders. The literature on "memory" is particularly rich in illustrations of how contradictory evocations of the past undergird conflicting performances and assertions of interest in the present. This study of the traditionally nomadic Yewéssey people documents a genre of performance seldom discussed in the anthropological literature—the ritual performance of forgetting as a means of resolving intractable conflicts and cultural contradictions. This essay is written with an undergraduate or lay audience in mind and is intended to introduce anthropological comparative method, and some of its most important vocabulary, in accessible language. Questions for classroom discussion are provided at the end.Item Open Access El nuevo imperio Yoruba: Textos, migración y el auge transatlántico de la nación lucumí(Culturas encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos, 2001) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access "Favorite Professors" Open Letter to the Class of 2009Matory, J LorandA reflection on the historic events of the past 22 years and of the past four years, appealing to the justice-minded activism of the graduating seniors. Also my farewell to Harvard.Item Open Access Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions(2008) Matory, J LorandWhereas most African Americans and most university scholars regard enslavement as a demeaning condition, many African or African-inspired religions represent slaves as powerful and social hierarchy as a normal condition of life. Indeed, Christianity and Islam valorize slavery and the slave is ways that we seldom highlight or recognize as shaping publicly accepted conduct even in recent times.Item Open Access Gendered Agendas: the Secrets Scholars Keep about Yoruba-Atlantic Religion(A Gender and History special edition, 2004) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access Gendered Agendas: the Secrets Scholars Keep about Yoruba-Atlantic Religion(2004) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access He Fit the Description: Prejudice and Pain in Progressive Communities(Racism in the Academy: The New Millenium, 2012-02) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access IN-DEPTH REVIEW: The Formation of Candomble: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil(AMERICAS, 2015-10) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access O navio de volta para casa: Tropos analíticos como mapas da e para a história cultural da diáspora africana(Contemporânea - Revista de Sociologia da UFSCar, 2020) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access On Rings amid Somersaults There: Poetry, Parody, Parenting(2007) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access ‘On the backs of Blacks’: the fetish and how socially inferior Europeans put down Africans to prove their equality with their own oppressors(History of European Ideas, 2023) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access Revisiting the African Diaspora –book review essay concerning Joseph M. Murphy’s Working the Spirit (1994), George Brandon’s Santeria from Africa to the New World (1993), and Ysamur Flores-Peña and Roberta J. Evanchuk’s Santería Garments and Altars (1994)(American Anthropologist, 1996) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access Sexual Secrets: Candomblé, Brazil, and the Multiple Intimacies of the African Diaspora(In Off Stage/On Display: Intimacy and Ethnography in the Age of Public Culture, 2004) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access Sexual Secrets: Candomblé, Brazil, and the Multiple Intimacies of the African Diaspora(2004) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access Surpassing "survival": On the urbanity of "traditional religion" in the Afro-Atlantic world(BLACK SCHOLAR, 2000) Matory, J LorandItem Open Access The New World Surrounds an Ocean: On the Live Dialogue between African and African American Cultures(2006) Matory, J LorandFor centuries, lifeways and political identities in Africa and in many parts of its American diaspora have been re-shaped by the back-and-forth exchange of people,books, musical recordings,and merchandise between Africa and the Americas, recommending that we re-think the analytic metaphors in terms of which the relationship between African and African-American cultures is conventionally described.Item Open Access The Progressives’ Prejudice'(The Harvard Crimson, 2007) Matory, J LorandLike other communities of progressive and highly educated people, Harvard is often in denial about the perseverance of racism. Precipitated by the famous "Quad Incident," in which a fellow student called to police on black students holding a field day on campus.Item Open Access 基于白-黑肤色差异的族裔间不平等及其生成逻辑 (The Light-Dark Hierarchy of Human Worth)(Journal of Chinese National Community Studies (中华民族共同体研究）, 2023-01-01) Matory, J Lorand