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3rd Annual Owomoyela Yoruba Studies Lecture

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March 13, 2015
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
020 Page Hall

3rd Annual Owomoyela Yoruba Studies Lecture
 
Time: 6-8 PM
Date:  Friday, March 13, 2015
Location: 020 Page Hall
 
The Third Annual Oyekan Owomoyela Yorùbá Studies Lecture

 
"Marx, Freud and the Gods of the Yoruba Atlantic: European Social Theory and the Real-Life 'Fetish'"

 
Dr. J. Lorand Matory is the Director of the Center for African and African American Research and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He conducts field research in Brazil, Nigeria, Benin Republic, Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica and the US. Choice magazine named his Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion an Outstanding Book of the Year in 1994, and his Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé received the Herskovits Prize for the best book of 2005 from the African Studies Association. His forthcoming research on ethnic diversity at historically black Howard University was the subject of the 2008 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures and will be published by the University of Chicago Press as Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America. In 2013, the government of the Federal Republic of Germany awarded him the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, a lifetime achievement award and one of Europe's highest academic distinctions.

 

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