by Adélékè Adéèkó (Author)
There is a culturally significant way of being Yoruba that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations-no matter where in the world they take place. Adeleke Adeeko documents Yoruba patterns of behavior and articulates a philosophy of how to be Yoruba in this innovative study. As he focuses on historical writings, Ifa divination practices, the use of proverbs in contemporary speech, photography, gendered ideas of dressing well, and the formalities of ceremony and speech at celebratory occasions, Adeeko contends that being Yoruba is indeed an art and Yoruba-ness is a dynamic phenomenon that responds to cultural shifts as Yoruba people inhabit an increasingly globalized world.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 17 Jul 2017
ISBN 10: 0253026237
ISBN 13: 9780253026231
In uniting various themes and topics, the book creates a tool and methodology to rethink interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, hybridity, and modernity. Recommended.
* Choice *Arts of Being Yoruba is a needed contribution to Yoruba studies and a welcome rejoinder to a more culturally essentialist understanding of what it means to be - or not be - Yoruba.
* Journal of Modern African Studies *Adeleke Adeek is Humanities Distinguished Professor in the English and African American and African Studies departments at Ohio State University. He is the author ofProverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature andThe Slave's Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature(IUP).
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