Ironic Reversals: Gender, Power, and Sacrality in Ilé-Ifẹ̀

Olupona’s “indigenous hermeneutic” offers a privileged guided journey into the dense ritual space of a vital city. I underscore a subtle leitmotif—gender and female agency—running throughout this interpretive account to show women’s power to be both a sustaining force and source of ironic reversals...

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Main Author: Grillo, Laura S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press 2014
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2014, Volume: 2, Issue: 4, Pages: 465-476
Further subjects:B female genital power
B Ifá
B Tradition
B Ilé-Ifẹ̀
B gender and power
B òriṣà
B Yorùbá
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Summary:Olupona’s “indigenous hermeneutic” offers a privileged guided journey into the dense ritual space of a vital city. I underscore a subtle leitmotif—gender and female agency—running throughout this interpretive account to show women’s power to be both a sustaining force and source of ironic reversals in the fate of Ilé-Ifẹ̀
ISSN:2165-5413
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions