A Yoruba tale of marriage, magic, misogyny and love

Journal of Religion in Africa

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 335-365

  Schiltz, Marc ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849112118     PISSN: 00224200     EISSN: 15700666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157006602760599944     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Abraham, R. C. 1958. Dictionary of Modern Yoruba. London: University of London Press
2. Adewoye, O. 1971. The Judicial Agreements in Yorubaland, 1904-1908. Journal of African History 12, 4
3. Ajisafe, A. K. 1924. The Laws and Customs of the Yoruba People. London: Routledge
4. Awolalu, J. O. 1979. Yoruba Beliefs and Sacrificial Rites. London: Longman
5. Barber, K. 1981. How Man Makes God in West Africa: Yoruba Attitudes Towards the òrìsà. Africa 51, 724-744
6. Barnes, S. T. 1974. Becoming a Lagosian. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin
7. Bascom, W. 1969. Ifá Divination: Communication between God and Men in West Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
8. Behar, R. 1994. Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story. Boston MA: Beacon Press
9. Beier, U. 1980. Yoruba Myths. Cambridge University Press
10. - 1993. In a Colonial University. Bayreuth: Iwalewa-Haus (mimeo)
11. - 1994. The Return of Shango: The Theatre of Duro Ladipo. Bayreuth: Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth
12. Benjamin, W. 1992. Illuminations. London: Fontana Press
13. Buckley, A. D. 1985. Yoruba Medicine. Oxford: Clarendon Press
14. Colson, E. 2000. The Father as Witch. Africa 70, 333-358
15. Comaroff J. & J. Comaroff 1993. Introduction. Modernity and its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa (eds.) J. Comaroff & J. Comaroff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
16. Desjarlais, R. 1996. Struggling along. In Things as They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology (ed.) M. Jackson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
17. Douglas, Mary 1975. Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
18. Drewal, H. J. & M. T. Drewal 1990. Gelede: Art and Female Power among the Yoruba. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
19. Fádípé, N. A. 1970. The Sociology of the Yoruba. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press
20. Falola, T. 1998. Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideology. New York: Rochester University Press
21. Geschiere, P. 1997. The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Charlottesville, VA, and London: University of Virginia Press
22. Hallen, B. & J. O. Sódipo 1986. Knowledge, Belief and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy. London: Ethnographica
23. Horton, Robin 1971. African Conversion. Africa 41, 85-108
24. Idowu, E. B. 1962. Olódùmarè: God in Yoruba Belief. London: Longmans
25. Johnson, S. 1921. The History of the Yorubas. London: G. Routledge & Sons
26. Kleinman, A. & J. Kleinman 1996. Suffering and its Professional Transformation: Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience. In Things as They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology (ed.) M. Jackson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
27. Láoyè, J. A. 1974. The Concept of mágùn among the Yoruba. Acta Ethnographica Academia Scientiarum Hungaricae (Budapest) 23, 352-355
28. Lucas, J. O. 1948. The Religion of the Yorubas. Lagos: C. M. S. Bookshop
29. MacIntyre, A. 1984. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press
30. Maier, K. 2002. This House has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis. London: Penguin Books
31. Mann, K. 1990 Male Potency, Male Power: The Cultural Interpretation of Impotence among the Yoruba. Paper presented at workshop: Towards a History of Gendered Men in Africa. University of Minnesota, April 6-7, 1990
32. Matory, J. L. 1994. Sex and the Empire that is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Òyo Yoruba Religion. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
33. Maxwell, D. 1998. Editorial. Journal of Religion in Africa 28.3, 255-257
34. Morton-Williams, P. 1956. The Atinga Cult among the South-western Yoruba: A Sociological Analysis of a Witch-finding Movement. Bulletin de l'l.F.A.N. xviii, ser. B, no.3-4
35. Marshall-Fratani, R. 1999. L'Explosion du christianisme pentecôtiste. Vivant Univers 442, 34-37
36. - 2001. Mediating the Global and the Local in Nigerian Pentecostalism. In Between Babel and Pentecost: Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America (eds.) A. Corten & R. Marshall-Fratani. London: Hurst & Company
37. Parish, J. 2000. From the Body to the Wallet: Conceptualizing Akan Witchcraft at Home and Abroad. J.R.A.I. (Man) 6, 487-500
38. Peel, J. D. Y. 1968. Aladúrà: A Religious Movement among the Yoruba. London: Oxford University Press
39. Pemberton, J. 1975. Eshu-Elegba: The Yoruba Trickster God. African Arts (UCLA) 9, 20-27
40. Rowlands, M. & J.-P. Warnier 1988. Sorcery, Power and the Modern State in Cameroon. Man (NS) 23, 118-132
41. Scheper-Hughes, N. 1992. Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press
42. Schiltz, M. 1980. Rural-urban Migration in Ígànná. Ph.D. Thesis, University of London
43. - 1982. Habitus and Peasantisation in Nigeria: A Yoruba Case Study. Man (NS) 17, 728-746
44. -1999. Religions et politiques des religions (Nigeria). Vivant Univers 442, 28-33
45. Singleton, M. 1974. Let My People Go: A Survey of the Catholic Church in Western Nigeria. Brussels: Pro Mundi Vita
46. - 1990-1991. Which Christians? What Witches? A Survey in South-west Nigeria. Psychopathologie Africaine, xxiii
47. Strathern, A. J. 1979. Ongka: A Self-account by a New Guinea Big-man. London: Duckworth
48. van Dijk, R. 2001. Time and Transcultural Technologies of the Self in the Ghanaian Pentecostal Diaspora. In Between Babel and Pentecost: Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America (eds.) A. Corten & R. Marshall-Fratani. London: Hurst
49. Verger, P. 1965. Grandeur et décadence du culte Iyami Osoronga (ma mère la sor- cière) chez les Yoruba. Journal de la Société des Africanistes 35, 141-243