Sex and the Empire That is no More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion

In the 1994 U. of Minnesota Press edition, Matory (anthropology, African and African American studies, Harvard U.) proposed a "new politics of ethnography" that recognizes the unique gendered social relationships of each culture. In a new preface to this reprint, he argues that "sex" is more culturally than genetically constructed. Taking into acco