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Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey

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 | #1034197 in Books |  Edna G Bay |  1998-07-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.88 x5.98l,1.35 | File type: PDF | 392 pages

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||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Great Research|By Upstate New Yorker|Excellent research and understanding of subject by Edna. Bay. Will be a classic!|6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Thoughtful; 4.5 Stars|By R. Albin|A very interesting and generally well written analysis of the monarchy of the west African kingdom of Dahomey from the early 1| ||A truly mature work of scholarship, Wives of the Leopard blurs the divisions between political and social history, between ritual studies and military history, between anthropology and history. Edna Bay challenges existing interpretations, advancing o

Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred years of the history of Dahomey up to the French colonial conquest in 1894, the book follows change in two central institutions. One was the monarchy, the coalitions of men and women who seized and wielded power in...

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