Judith Gleason

Biographic Data

ID90234
NAMEJudith Gleason
GIVEN NAMESJudith
FAMILY NAMEGleason
SIGNATUREGLEASON J
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1966
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX2

  • Day and Night Hunting

    Open AccessJudith GleasonARTICLEInternational Review of…2009

    Certain episodes of intense fieldwork, though documented on site and working their way into print, may later haunt their erstwhile scribe as though clamoring for more thematic salience. Decades after the events recalled in this essay, a distinguished pianist invited her peripatetic friend to participate in a literary occasion to take place in a spacious living room (accommodating a grand piano) where for years she has been previewing new programs…

  • Summer Visits Nezahualcoyotl

    Open AccessJudith GleasonARTICLECulture Studies ↔ Critical…2009References: 5

    Although the pre-Hispanic poet and statesman Nezahualcoyotl (1402 to 1472) continues to be a 'cultural icon' in Mexico, apparently nobody north of the border has ever heard of him! Relying on John Curl's fine translations of his work, the author set out to remedy the situation by fancifully summering in the relaxed company of a supernatural connoisseur: Xochipilli. What follows is a topical essay highlighting the poet's uneasy political situation…

  • Waterspirit-Carrying Woman

    Open AccessJudith GleasonARTICLECulture Studies ↔ Critical…2009References: 3

    1977. We meet Ngowuka, waterspirit priestess of an indigenous healing tradition, on Bolo Island within Okrikan precincts of the Niger Delta. Further visits over the years entail experiences not easily analyzed. An exception is the process of buruao body painting, on which this essay focuses, eventually mandala-like to remain an evanescent simulacrum of the spirit-saturated natural world of Ngowuka and her congeners. As global oil prices surge and…

  • Where Does Your River Begin

    Open AccessJudith GleasonARTICLECulture Studies ↔ Critical…2004Cited by: 1References: 1

  • The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture

    Judith Gleason, Barry HallenARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2003Cited by: 1

    SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY Barry Hallen. The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 20001. xiv + 219 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Cloth. $17.95. Paper. Barry Hallen. A Short History of African Philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. ix + 130 pp. Bibliography. $29.95. Cloth. $14.95. Paper. What is important in a study such as this is to be careful-t…

  • Osun across the Waters: A Yoruba Goddess in Africa and the Americas

    Judith Gleason, Joseph M Murphy et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2002Cited by: 4

  • Becoming a Woman in Okrika

    Melissa Anderson, Judith Gleason et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts1996

  • Off the Grid: Response to Blakely and Blakely

    Open AccessJudith GleasonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1993

  • Singing Praises

    David Dorsey, Judith GleasonARTICLECallaloo1983

  • Leaf and Bone, African Praise Poems: An Anthology with Commentary

    Abdul R Yesufu, Judith GleasonARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1981Cited by: 2

  • A Recitation of IFA, Oracle of the Yoruba

    Henry John Drewal, Henry Drewal et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts1974

  • The Burgeoning Literature of the New African States

    John Povey, Judith GleasonARTICLEPhylon (19601966