Author: Rowland Abiodun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139992872
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Yoruba was one of the most important civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa. While the high quality and range of its artistic and material production have long been recognized, the art of the Yoruba has been judged primarily according to the standards and principles of Western aesthetics. In this book, which merges the methods of art history, archaeology, and anthropology, Rowland Abiodun offers new insights into Yoruba art and material culture by examining them within the context of the civilization's cultural norms and values and, above all, the Yoruba language. Abiodun draws on his fluency and prodigious knowledge of Yoruba culture and language to dramatically enrich our understanding of Yoruba civilization and its arts. The book includes a companion website with audio clips of the Yoruba language, helping the reader better grasp the integral connection between art and language in Yoruba culture.
Author: Rowland Abiodun
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107047447
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 415
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Rowland Abiodun draws on his fluency and prodigious knowledge of Yoruba culture and language to dramatically enrich our understanding of Yoruba civilization and its arts.
Author: Henry John Drewal
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin, over 15 million strong, are heirs to one of the oldest and greatest artistic traditions in West Africa. This text offers a look at Yoruba civilization. Over 200 photographs illustrate rarely seen objects from museums and private collections.
Author: Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253051525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent. Weaving together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science with oral traditions, and material culture with mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional, and even global dimensions of Yoruba history. The Yoruba: A New History offers an intriguing cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social history from ca. 300 BC to 1840. It accounts for the events, peoples, and practices, as well as the theories of knowledge, ways of being, and social valuations that shaped the Yoruba experience at different junctures of time. The result is a new framework for understanding the Yoruba past and present.
Author: William Buller Fagg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9781592213368
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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In songs, dance and drama the fame of the Yoruba of Nigeria is firmly established and universally acknowledged. Also an established writing and literary tradition, the Yoruba have asserted themselves as a dominant force in the world of creativity. Such stars are represented here, as in the works of Wole Soyinka and Zulu Sofola. The future of language in the making of new idioms and dictionaries is also examined in an attempt to position the Yoruba and their cultures in the ever-changing world of cultural inventions.
Author: Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328521
Category : Art, Yoruba
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals.
Author: Babatunde Lawal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Yoruba
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Author: Fehintola Mosadomi
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1937963020
Category : Electronic books
Languages : yo
Pages : 330
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"Yorùbá Yé Mi is a new multi-media program designed to enliven classroom activities. It promotes and enhances the learning of Yorùbá by incorporating the four language learning skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing"--Preface
Author: Aribidesi Usman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107064600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
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A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
