Ifi Amadiume
Biographic Data
| ID | 110653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ifi Amadiume |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ifi |
| FAMILY NAME | Amadiume |
| SIGNATURE | AMADIUME I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Still Engaging Issues
Male Daughters, Female Husbands
Challenging the received orthodoxies of social anthropology, Ifi Amadiume argues that in precolonial society, sex and gender did not necessarily coincide. Examining the structures that enabled women to achieve power, she shows that roles were neither rigidly masculinized nor feminized
On the Question of Theory
Along an African Border
Journal Article Along an African Border: Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets. By Sónia Silva Get access Along an African Border: Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets. By Sónia Silva. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 172 pages. $39.95. Ifi Amadiume Ifi Amadiume Dartmouth College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, …
Prophecy, Authenticity, Oppositional Models
THIS LONGISH TITLE BETRAYS THE COMPLEXITY OF ISSUES THAT I AM GRAPPLING with in this paper. How do we integrate disciplines to analyze and more fully understand the present dynamic reality in African societies and nations? The supposed modern situation seems almost like the traditional structures in the overlapping of what are presented in academic studies as separate institutions to be studied in different departments. Religion, literature, soci…
Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial Enchantments
Research Article| March 01 2002 Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial Enchantments: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water Ifi Amadiume Ifi Amadiume ifi amadiume is Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College. Educated in Nigeria and Britain, she has written several books with a special focus on gender analysis. Her latest book is Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism: African Women, Culture, Power and Democracy (Zed Books, 2000). Sear…
In Praise of Black Women. Volume 1
Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism
Daughters of the goddess, daughters of imperalism
Reinventing Africa
Re-inventer l'Afrique : Matriarchat, religion et culture, d'Ifi Amadiume, publie a Londres en 1997, est une collection d'articles ecrits entre 1989 et 1992, qui sont le resultat de l'implication sociale et politique de l'A. avec des groupes de la communaute africaine d'une part, et de son experience academique de l'autre. Cette oeuvre propose une analyse forte des effets destructeurs de l'interaction de l'imperialisme et du patriarchat dans de no…
Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism
1. Introduction. * 2. African women present realities and which way forward? * 3. A history of class transformations: contemporary women's organizations in Nigeria. * 4. Class contestation in NCWS and other national women's organizations. * 5. Class and gender dynamics in professional women's organizations: rhetoric and practice. * 6. Gender and class in campaigns and civil discourse. * 7. Class and gender in child abuse. * 8. Women's healthcare …
Chasing Shadows
The vast majority of scholars in African studies today utilize the explanatory categories of Europe to promote an understanding of Africa, its histories, social and political institutions, and cultures. In a series of essays, lectures and books, Cheikh Anta Diop's correctly argued against this approach, contending that it is inimical to the elucidation of the specific character of Africa's material culture, and the deeper philosophical structure …
Anioma
The Circumcision of Women
Male Daughters, Female Husbands
Male Daughters, Female Husbands
Challenging the received orthodoxies of social anthropology, Ifi Amadiume argues that in precolonial society, sex and gender did not necessarily coincide. Examining the structures that enabled women to achieve power, she shows that roles were neither rigidly masculinized nor feminized
Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial Enchantments
Research Article| March 01 2002 Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial Enchantments: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water Ifi Amadiume Ifi Amadiume ifi amadiume is Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College. Educated in Nigeria and Britain, she has written several books with a special focus on gender analysis. Her latest book is Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism: African Women, Culture, Power and Democracy (Zed Books, 2000). Sear…
Chasing Shadows
The vast majority of scholars in African studies today utilize the explanatory categories of Europe to promote an understanding of Africa, its histories, social and political institutions, and cultures. In a series of essays, lectures and books, Cheikh Anta Diop's correctly argued against this approach, contending that it is inimical to the elucidation of the specific character of Africa's material culture, and the deeper philosophical structure …
Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism
The Circumcision of Women
The Circumcision of Women
Male Daughters, Female Husbands
Anioma
Chasing Shadows
The vast majority of scholars in African studies today utilize the explanatory categories of Europe to promote an understanding of Africa, its histories, social and political institutions, and cultures. In a series of essays, lectures and books, Cheikh Anta Diop's correctly argued against this approach, contending that it is inimical to the elucidation of the specific character of Africa's material culture, and the deeper philosophical structure …
Daughters of the goddess, daughters of imperalism
Reinventing Africa
Re-inventer l'Afrique : Matriarchat, religion et culture, d'Ifi Amadiume, publie a Londres en 1997, est une collection d'articles ecrits entre 1989 et 1992, qui sont le resultat de l'implication sociale et politique de l'A. avec des groupes de la communaute africaine d'une part, et de son experience academique de l'autre. Cette oeuvre propose une analyse forte des effets destructeurs de l'interaction de l'imperialisme et du patriarchat dans de no…
Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism
1. Introduction. * 2. African women present realities and which way forward? * 3. A history of class transformations: contemporary women's organizations in Nigeria. * 4. Class contestation in NCWS and other national women's organizations. * 5. Class and gender dynamics in professional women's organizations: rhetoric and practice. * 6. Gender and class in campaigns and civil discourse. * 7. Class and gender in child abuse. * 8. Women's healthcare …
In Praise of Black Women. Volume 1
Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism
Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial Enchantments
Research Article| March 01 2002 Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial Enchantments: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water Ifi Amadiume Ifi Amadiume ifi amadiume is Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College. Educated in Nigeria and Britain, she has written several books with a special focus on gender analysis. Her latest book is Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism: African Women, Culture, Power and Democracy (Zed Books, 2000). Sear…
Prophecy, Authenticity, Oppositional Models
THIS LONGISH TITLE BETRAYS THE COMPLEXITY OF ISSUES THAT I AM GRAPPLING with in this paper. How do we integrate disciplines to analyze and more fully understand the present dynamic reality in African societies and nations? The supposed modern situation seems almost like the traditional structures in the overlapping of what are presented in academic studies as separate institutions to be studied in different departments. Religion, literature, soci…
On the Question of Theory
Along an African Border
Journal Article Along an African Border: Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets. By Sónia Silva Get access Along an African Border: Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets. By Sónia Silva. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 172 pages. $39.95. Ifi Amadiume Ifi Amadiume Dartmouth College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, …
Still Engaging Issues
Male Daughters, Female Husbands
Challenging the received orthodoxies of social anthropology, Ifi Amadiume argues that in precolonial society, sex and gender did not necessarily coincide. Examining the structures that enabled women to achieve power, she shows that roles were neither rigidly masculinized nor feminized
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Democracy (3 works)