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Wives of the Leopard

Name: Wives of the Leopard
Price: 32.53 GBP
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Author: Edna G. Bay
ISBN: 9780813917924

Gender, Politics and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey

by Edna G. Bay

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392 pages
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
15.3 x 22.7 x 2.3 cm

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For readers interested in African social history.

Explains how gender shaped power in old Dahomey.

Deepens your grasp of cultural history and power.

A fascinating historical study of the Kingdom of Dahomey, examining gender and power in a pre-colonial African state.

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This text explores the culture of the pre-colonial West African state of Dahomey against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade and European imperialism. Tracing 200 years of history up to the French colonial conquest in 1894, the book follows change in the monarchy and the palace.