A social and iconographic history of a West African sculptural form
Edna Bay is an associate professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University and the author of Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey and other works.
"In this nuanced extended essay, Bay demonstrates the social
processes through which an object type can both reflect and
structure devotional practice embedded within political economy,
changing over time. . . . Recommended."--Choice
“Edna Bay paints a dense landscape of Dahomey during the
precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial period through the lens of
the asen . . . . In all, this valuable asen study offers a
comprehensive account of the shifts in political, socioeconomic,
and religious thought in Ouidah and beyond over 150
years.”--International Journal of African Historical Studies
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