Gendered agendas: The secrets scholars keep about Yorùbá-Atlantic religion

Gender and History

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 409-439

  Matory, J Lorand ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; FEMINISM; GENDER RELATIONS; RELIGION;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0347538004     PISSN: 09535233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2003.00314.x     Document Type: Article

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