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by Edna, G Bay (Author) "Dahomey epitomized everything negative that the Euro-American imagination of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries wanted to believe about Africa..." (more)
Key Phrases: other vodun, palace organization, positional succession, Porto Novo, Slave Coast, Grand Customs (more...)
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Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a precolonial West African state, Dahomey, whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America.

Product Details
  • Paperback: 396 pages
  • Publisher: University Press of Virginia (January 1, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0813917921
  • ISBN-13: 978-0813917924
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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