15:3315:33, 18 September 2022diffhist+233
Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong'o
→In the media: Edits in response to "For 'In the media' section, I'm wary of quoting people involved with any film on their feelings about it. The emphasis should be on what independent sources thought of it." I relocated them from this section, moved them to production notes, while also revising them for brevity. I do think these comments are relevant to the final product.Tag: Visual edit
20:1020:10, 15 September 2022diffhist+2,442
The Woman King
History vs. Hollywood cites Yoder (1974) theory of an pro-slavery Elephant party and anti-slavery Fly party, which has been refuted. Conducting military attacks and raids for the purpose of taking captives in slavery and performing ceremonial human sacrifices using slaves were culturally essential for the Agojie/Mino.Tag: Visual edit
17:5417:54, 15 September 2022diffhist+1,258
Dahomey Amazons
→Political role: Yoder's work did not indicate that the Mino, as a whole, supported these issues for reasons as shown by the change. More broadly, the implication that any Mino member supported trade in palm oil over enslaved peoples by Yoder's research has been widely disputed by Dahomey scholarship, most notably by Robin Law and David Ross.Tags: RevertedVisual edit
15:3315:33, 18 September 2022diffhist+233
Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong'o
→In the media: Edits in response to "For 'In the media' section, I'm wary of quoting people involved with any film on their feelings about it. The emphasis should be on what independent sources thought of it." I relocated them from this section, moved them to production notes, while also revising them for brevity. I do think these comments are relevant to the final product.Tag: Visual edit
20:1020:10, 15 September 2022diffhist+2,442
The Woman King
History vs. Hollywood cites Yoder (1974) theory of an pro-slavery Elephant party and anti-slavery Fly party, which has been refuted. Conducting military attacks and raids for the purpose of taking captives in slavery and performing ceremonial human sacrifices using slaves were culturally essential for the Agojie/Mino.Tag: Visual edit
17:5417:54, 15 September 2022diffhist+1,258
Dahomey Amazons
→Political role: Yoder's work did not indicate that the Mino, as a whole, supported these issues for reasons as shown by the change. More broadly, the implication that any Mino member supported trade in palm oil over enslaved peoples by Yoder's research has been widely disputed by Dahomey scholarship, most notably by Robin Law and David Ross.Tags: RevertedVisual edit