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Wives of the leopard: gender, politics, and culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey

Edna G. Bay c1998 © University of Virginia Press
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  • 9780813923864 (ebook)
  • 9780813917924 (paper)
  • 9780813917917 (hardcover)
Subject
  • African
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • Author's Note (page xv)
  • Chapter 1 Along the Slave Coast (page 1)
  • Chapter 2 From Dahomey's Origins to 1740 (page 40)
  • Chapter 3 The Age of Tegbesu and Hwanjile (page 81)
  • Chapter 4 The Struggle to Maintain the State (page 119)
  • Chapter 5 The Implications of Cultural and Commercial Change (page 166)
  • Chapter 6 The Decline of Dahomey (page 223)
  • Chapter 7 War, Disintegration, and the Failure of the Ancestors (page 274)
  • Chapter 8 Reprise (page 312)
  • Notes (page 323)
  • Glossary (page 353)
  • Bibliography (page 355)
  • Index (page 367)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AFSR 42.3 (1999): 112-114 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-0206%28199912%2942%3A3%3C112%3AWOTLGP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
IJAHS 32.1 (1999): 127-128 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%281999%2932%3A1%3C127%3AWOTLGP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
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