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Ironic Reversals: Gender, Power, and Sacrality in Ilé-Ifẹ̀
- Journal of Africana Religions
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 2, Number 4, 2014
- pp. 465-476
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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