Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba

by J.D.Y. Peel

Book Overview

"Peel is by training an anthropologist, but one possessed of an acute historical sensibility. Indeed, this magnificent book achieves a degree of analytical verve rare in either discipline." --History Today

" T]his is scholarship of the highest quality. . . . Peel lifts the Yoruba past to a dimension of comparative seriousness that no one else has managed. . . . The book teems with ideas . . . about big and compelling matters of very wide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253215889
• ISBN13: 9780253215888
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher