Browsing by Author "Matory, JL"
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A Broken Calabash: Social Aspects of Worship among Brazilian and West African Yoruba--Part One
(1982)Part 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. -
A Broken Calabash: Social Aspects of Worship among Brazilian and West African Yoruba--Part Two
(1982)Part 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. -
Affirmative Scapegoating
(The Harvard Crimson, 2014) -
AFRICANISMS IN AMERICAN CULTURE - HOLLOWAY,JE
(AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, 1991-06) -
Africans in the United States
(Footsteps: African American History and Heritage Magazine, 2001-03) -
Afro-Atlantic Culture: On the Live Dialogue between Africa and the Americas
(Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 1999) -
Afro-Atlantic Culture: On the Live Dialogue between Africa and the Americas
(Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 1999) -
Book review of "Yoruba sacred kingship: 'A power like that of the gods.'"
(Anthropological Quarterly, 1998-07) -
Collecting and exhibiting at the crossroads: in honor of eshu
(Material Religion, 2016-07-27) -
Cuba and African Diaspora Religion
(ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, 2000) -
El nuevo imperio Yoruba: Textos, migración y el auge transatlántico de la nación lucumí
(Culturas encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos, 2001) -
Elliot Percival Skinner (1924-2007) Obituary
(AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, 2009-03) -
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)US-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 ... -
Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions
(Journal of Religion in Africa, 2007) -
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) -
From ‘Survival’ to ‘Dialogue’: Analytic Tropes in the Study of African-Diaspora Cultural History
(Transatlantic Caribbean: Dialogues of People, Practices, Ideas, 2014)About 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. -
Gendered Agendas: The Secrets Scholars Keep about Yorùbá-Atlantic Religion
(Gender & History, 2003-11-01)Whereas 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 ... -
Government by Seduction: History and the Tropes of 'Mounting' in Ọyọ-Yoruba Religion
(Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Africa, 1993)
