“Marx, Freud and the Gods of the Yoruba Atlantic: European Social Theory and the Real-Life ‘Fetish’”  was the topic of the 3^rd annual Oyekan Owomoyela Yoruba Studies lecture on March 13^th.  Dr. J Lorand Matory, Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Director, Center for African and African American Research at Duke University spoke to an audience at the Glenn School.  Professor Matory drew on his field research in Brazil, Nigeria, Benin Republic, Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica and the US to address issues spanning multiple continents, historical eras, religious and social philosophies.  The audience was challenged to reconsider the notion of the fetish, usually associated with the cultures of the ‘primative other’ , in the context of some of Freud’s and Marx’s social theories and their applications.