Professor of Anthropology
and Afro-American Studies
William James Hall, Room 310
617-495-7826
James Lorand Matory, Professor, Departments of Anthropology and of Afro-American Studies, received his M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in anthropology from Harvard College.
Professor Matory has taught
Afro-American Studies 97b: “West African Cultures.”
Afro-American Studies 12. Topics
in Afro-American History and Society: Seminar
Afro-American
Studies 140. Syncretism: Seminar
[Afro-American
Studies 140z. The Other African Americans]
[Afro-American
Studies 141 (formerly Anthropology 157). Afro-Atlantic Religions]
[Afro-American Studies 142. Afro-Latin Society and Politics]
His publications include:
Sex and the Empire that Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion
“The English Professors of Brazil: On the Diasporic Roots of the Yoruba Nation”
and the forthcoming publications:
Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Black Atlantic World
The Other African Americans
(which addresses the cultural and political conduct of various ethnic
groups of African origin or African descent in the U.S. who have sometimes
resisted assimilation into the “Negro/Black/African-American”
legal and political category)
Department of Afro-American Studies
Prof. Matory's page at Afro-Am