Women's rituals, kingship and power among the Ondo-Yoruba of Nigeria

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 810, Issue , 1997, Pages 315-336

  Olupona, Jacob K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; AUTHORITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; NIGERIA; SOCIETY;

EID: 0030839048     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48133.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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