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Item Open Access A Broken Calabash: Social Aspects of Worship among Brazilian and West African Yoruba--Part One(1982) Matory, JLPart One of Senior honors thesis as Harvard College, awarded High Honors and Magna Cum Laude. A comparison of the social organization of orisha worship in Nigeria and Brazil.Item Open Access A Broken Calabash: Social Aspects of Worship among Brazilian and West African Yoruba--Part Two(1982) Matory, JLPart Two of A Senior honors thesis at Harvard College, awarded High Honors/Magna Cum Laude. A comparison of the social organization of orisha worship in Nigeria and Brazil.Item Open Access Affirmative Scapegoating(The Harvard Crimson, 2014) Matory, JLItem Open Access AFRICANISMS IN AMERICAN CULTURE - HOLLOWAY,JE(AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, 1991-06) Matory, JLItem Open Access Africans in the United States(Footsteps: African American History and Heritage Magazine, 2001-03) Matory, JLItem Open Access Afro-Atlantic Culture: On the Live Dialogue between Africa and the Americas(Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 1999) Matory, JLItem Open Access Afro-Atlantic Culture: On the Live Dialogue between Africa and the Americas(Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 1999) Matory, JLItem Open Access Book review of "Yoruba sacred kingship: 'A power like that of the gods.'"(Anthropological Quarterly, 1998-07) Matory, JLItem Open Access Collecting and exhibiting at the crossroads: in honor of eshu(Material Religion, 2016-07-27) Matory, JLItem Open Access Cuba and African Diaspora Religion(ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, 2000) Matory, JLItem 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, JLItem Open Access Elliot Percival Skinner (1924-2007) Obituary(AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, 2009-03) Matory, JLItem Open Access Feminismo, nacionalismo, e a luta pelo significado do adé no Candomblé: ou, como Edison Carneiro e Ruth landes inverteram o curso da historia(Revista de Antropologia: Revista de Antropologia da Universidade de São Paulo, 2008) Matory, JLUS-based feminist anthropologist Ruth Landes introduced homophobic ideas into the Brazilian elite's understanding and treatment of male-loving priests of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion. This influence helps to explain the relatively recent numerical dominance of priestesses over priests in this religion.Item Open Access Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions(Journal of Religion in Africa, 2007) Matory, JLItem Open Access Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions(Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions, 2008) Matory, JLItem Open Access From ‘Survival’ to ‘Dialogue’: Analytic Tropes in the Study of African-Diaspora Cultural History(Transatlantic Caribbean: Dialogues of People, Practices, Ideas, 2014) Matory, JLAbout the changing analytic metaphors and other tropes that have informed research on African-diaspora cultural history. Each one highlights and hides dimensions of cultural change in the diaspora.Item Open Access Gendered Agendas: The Secrets Scholars Keep about Yorùbá-Atlantic Religion(Gender & History, 2003-11-01) Matory, JLWhereas scholars have often described the material interests served by any given social group's selective narration of history, this article catches scholars in the act of selectively narrating Yorùbá-Atlantic cultural history in the service of their own faraway activist projects. Anthropologist Ruth Landes' re-casting of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblá religion as an instance of primitive matriarchy not only encouraged feminists abroad but also led Brazilian nationalist power-brokers to marginalise the male, and often reputedly homosexual, priests who give the lie to Landes's interpretation. In the service of a longdistance Yorùbá nationalist agenda, sociologist Oyeronke Oyewumi has declared traditional Yorùbá society ‘genderless’, and found, among both North American feminist scholars and Yorùbá male scholars, allies in concealing the copious evidence of gender and gender inequality in Yorùbá cultural history. What these historical constructions lack in truth value they make up for in their power to mobilise new communities and alliances around the defence of a shared secret. The article addresses how politically tendentious scholarship on gender has inspired new social hierarchies and boundaries through the truths that some high-profile scholars have chosen to silence.Item Open Access Government by Seduction: History and the Tropes of 'Mounting' in Ọyọ-Yoruba Religion(Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Africa, 1993) Matory, JLItem Open Access Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1982 25th Anniversary Report(2007) Matory, JLItem Open Access Homens Montados: homossexualidade e simbolismo da possessão nas religiões afro-brasileiras (Mounted Men: homosexuality and the symbolism of possession in the Afro-Brazilian religions)(Escravidão e Invenção da Liberdade, 1988) Matory, JL
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