Browsing by Author "Matory, J Lorand"
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Afro-Atlantic Culture: On the Live Dialogue between Africa and the Americas
(Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 1999) -
Contradiction and Forgetting in Yewéssey Culture
(Transforming Anthropology, 2001-07)Anthropologists 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 ... -
El nuevo imperio Yoruba: Textos, migración y el auge transatlántico de la nación lucumí
(Culturas encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos, 2001) -
Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions
(2008)Whereas 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 ... -
Gendered Agendas: the Secrets Scholars Keep about Yoruba-Atlantic Religion
(A Gender and History special edition, 2004) -
He Fit the Description: Prejudice and Pain in Progressive Communities
(Racism in the Academy: The New Millenium, 2012-02) -
IN-DEPTH REVIEW: The Formation of Candomble: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil
(AMERICAS, 2015-10) -
Santeria from Africa to the New World: The dead sell memories - Brandon,G
(AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, 1996-03) -
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) -
Surpassing "survival": On the urbanity of "traditional religion" in the Afro-Atlantic world
(BLACK SCHOLAR, 2000) -
The Progressives’ Prejudice'
(The Harvard Crimson, 2007)Like 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 ...
