Description
Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a precolonial West African state, Dahomey, whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America.
Author: Edna G. Bay
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 07/29/1998
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780813917924
ISBN10: 0813917921
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Religion | Christian Rituals & Practice | General
Author: Edna G. Bay
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 07/29/1998
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780813917924
ISBN10: 0813917921
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Religion | Christian Rituals & Practice | General
About the Author
Edna G. Bay is Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University and is the editor of several books in African studies.
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