Ironic Reversals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7097478 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura S Grillo (0000-0003-0665-2299, Pacifica Graduate Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 465-476 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Africana Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2165-5405 • E-ISSN: 2165-5413 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/jafrireli.2.4.0465 |
| OpenAlex | W4242649849 |
| Language | EN |
Olupona's “indigenous hermeneutic” offers a privileged guided journey into the dense ritual space of a vital city. I underscore a subtle leitmotif—gender and female agency—running throughout this interpretive account to show women's power to be both a sustaining force and source of ironic reversals in the fate of Ilé-Ifẹ̀
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Biology · Epistemology · Indigenous · Linguistics · Physics · Power (physics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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