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BARBER, Karin, and MORAES FARIAS, P.F. de, (eds.), Discourse and Its Disguises: The Interpretation of African Oral Texts, Birmingham, University of Birmingham, Centre of West African Studies, 1989, 209 pp., 0 7044 1042 7

BARBER, Karin, and MORAES FARIAS, P.F. de, (eds.), Discourse and Its Disguises: The... 82 outspokenness and yet was so self-effacing and conforming to Vic- torian propriety. She spurned the designation of "New Woman" and scorned the "shrieking females and androgyns" or aspiring learned women. Not only did she precede the much hailed Isak Dinesen to Africa, but she far outstripped her in terms of mobility and feedback. In this age of self-reflexitivity, consciousness-raising and diverse voices, the least we could do is to expose our students of African religions to some of her challenging observations on Western missions and African "fetish" and customs (as well as the reactions of others to her observations), and to encourage them to contextualize and deconstruct these images. They might serve as a useful complement to some of the drier ethnographic mainstays of our field. Kingsley's Travels in West Africa and Frank's A Voyager Out are the tools at our disposal and we will all be richer in a number of ways for reading them. NOTE 1. Goldie, of course, was not everyone's favourite. For example, he shrewdly manipulated public feeling and the anti-liquor policy of the Royal Niger Company to discredit the Liverpool traders in the Niger Delta area and the Lagos and Niger Protectorate http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

BARBER, Karin, and MORAES FARIAS, P.F. de, (eds.), Discourse and Its Disguises: The Interpretation of African Oral Texts, Birmingham, University of Birmingham, Centre of West African Studies, 1989, 209 pp., 0 7044 1042 7

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Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 21 (1): 82 – Jan 1, 1991
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© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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82 outspokenness and yet was so self-effacing and conforming to Vic- torian propriety. She spurned the designation of "New Woman" and scorned the "shrieking females and androgyns" or aspiring learned women. Not only did she precede the much hailed Isak Dinesen to Africa, but she far outstripped her in terms of mobility and feedback. In this age of self-reflexitivity, consciousness-raising and diverse voices, the least we could do is to expose our students of African religions to some of her challenging observations on Western missions and African "fetish" and customs (as well as the reactions of others to her observations), and to encourage them to contextualize and deconstruct these images. They might serve as a useful complement to some of the drier ethnographic mainstays of our field. Kingsley's Travels in West Africa and Frank's A Voyager Out are the tools at our disposal and we will all be richer in a number of ways for reading them. NOTE 1. Goldie, of course, was not everyone's favourite. For example, he shrewdly manipulated public feeling and the anti-liquor policy of the Royal Niger Company to discredit the Liverpool traders in the Niger Delta area and the Lagos and Niger Protectorate

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