Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society

Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba SocietyHow can we account for the power of ritual? This is the guiding question of Black Critics and Kings, which examines how Yoruba forms of ritual and knowledge shape politics, history, and resistance against the state. Focusing on "deep" knowledge in Yoruba cosmology as an interpretive space for configuring difference, Andrew Apter analyzes ritual empowerment as an essentially critical practice, one that revises authoritative discourses of space, time,

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