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J. Lorand Matory

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Lawrence Richardson Distinguished Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
jm217@duke.edu
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Scholarly Works - Books

The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make

Book · October 26, 2018 Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make J. Lorand Matory. Eshu (Èṣù, Yorùbá god), 1–2, 3f, 285–32, plate 1. See also Elegguá; Exu; Legba Èṣù (also Eshu or Elégbára; Yorùbá god), 1,3f, plate 1. See Elegguá; Exu; Legba ethnographic ... ... Link to item Cite

Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America

Book · 2015 Featured Publication The dialectical construction of "cultural" identities among Caribbean immigrants, African immigrants, Louisiana Creoles of color,Native Americans of African descent, Gullah-Geechees, and soi-disant "middle-class" African Americans in and around Howard Univ ... Link to item Cite

Religión Afro-Atlántica: Tradición, Trasnacionalismo y Matriarcado en el Candomblé Brasileño

Book · 2014 Featured Publication Spanish-language translation of Black Atlantic Religion. The classical African-inspired religions of the Americas result not from the inert "survival " of African identities and practices predating the slave trade but from a circum-Atlantic "dialogue" amon ... Link to item Cite

Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble

Book · February 9, 2009 Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the lo ... Link to item Cite

Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo-Yoruba Religion

Book · 2005 The form and role of orisa-worship among the West Africa Yoruba has changed during the past two centuries in ways correlated with the changing overall political system. The relationships between men and women have provided two majors sorts of metaphor for ... Link to item Cite

Vessels of Power: the Dialectical Symbolism of Power in Yoruba Religion and Polity - Part One

Book · 1986 Part One of Master's thesis in Anthropology at the University of Chicago, award the Roy D. Albert Prize for Excellence in the Study of Anthropology. Concerns the history of vessels and metaphors of containment and "mounting" in the delegation of sacred and ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Vessels of Power: the Dialectical Symbolism of Power in Yoruba Religion and Polity - Part Two

Book · 1986 Part Two of Master's thesis in Anthropology at the University of Chicago, award the Roy D. Albert Prize for Excellence in the Study of Anthropology. Concerns the history of vessels and metaphors of containment and "mounting" in the delegation of sacred and ... Open Access Link to item Cite

A Broken Calabash: Social Aspects of Worship among Brazilian and West African Yoruba--Part One

Book · 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. ... Open Access Link to item Cite

A Broken Calabash: Social Aspects of Worship among Brazilian and West African Yoruba--Part Two

Book · 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. ... Open Access Link to item Cite