UID:
almahu_9947363709602882
Format:
XIII, 262 p.
,
online resource.
ISBN:
9781137521255
Series Statement:
Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Content:
There is significant religious and linguistic evidence that Yorùbá society was not gendered in its original form. In this follow-up to The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, Oy?wùmí explores the intersections of gender, history, knowledge-making, and the role of intellectuals in the process. She applies the finding of a non-gendered ontology to the institution of Ifa, the most important endogenous system of knowledge in Yorùbá culture, and explores how gender is implicated in interpretations of the knowledge system, as social and ritual practice, and as a cultural institution in a changing world.
In:
Springer eBooks
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781349580514
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1057/9781137521255
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137521255
