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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.
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.
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 9 books | 12 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: other vodun, palace organization, positional succession, palace population, overseas slave trade (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: Porto Novo, Slave Coast, Grand Customs, West Africa, Western Hemisphere (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | |