Wives of the Leopard

Author/Contributor(s):	Bay, Edna G
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Date:	07/29/1998
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a precolonial West African state, Dahomey, whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America.