Understanding Yoruba Life and Culture
Understanding Yoruba Life and Culture

Author: Nike Lawal

Publisher: Africa Research and Publications

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13:

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With a population of about thirty million, the Yoruba people constitute one of the largest single ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. They are internationally acclaimed for their high art, complex system of government, religion, and philosophy. This multi-authored book written by distinguished scholars like Ayo Bamgbose, Toyin Falola, Stephen Akintoye, Omofolabo Soyinka-Ajayi, Emmanuel Babatunde, H.O. Danmole, Akinbiyi Akinlabi, and Agbo Folarin, is the first of its kind to cover all the important topics and issues in Yoruba culture. Who were the Yoruba? Where did they come from? What is Yoruba society like? What is the role of women in the society? What is the nature of their art forms? What is Yoruba philosophy? These questions and many more are answered in this significant book. (Back cover).

The Yoruba
The Yoruba

Author: Akinwumi Ogundiran

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0253051525

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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.

The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

Author: B. Hallen

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780253338068

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Hallen asks the Yoruba onisegun - the wisest and most accomplished herbalists or traditional healers - what it means to be good and beautiful. The onisegun explain the subtleties and intricacies of Yoruba language use and philosophy behind particular word choices. Their instructions reveal the depth of Yoruba aesthetics and ethics.

Understanding African Philosophy
Understanding African Philosophy

Author: Richard H. Bell

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780415939379

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Yoruba Art and Language
Yoruba Art and Language

Author: Rowland Abiodun

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1139992872

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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.

Arts of Being Yoruba
Arts of Being Yoruba

Author: Adélékè Adéèkó

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2017-07-17

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0253026725

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There is a culturally significant way of being Yorùbá that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations—no matter where in the world they take place. Adélékè Adék documents Yorùbá patterns of behavior and articulates a philosophy of how to be Yorùbá in this innovative study. As he focuses on historical writings, Ifá 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, Adéékó contends that being Yorùbá is indeed an art and Yorùbá-ness is a dynamic phenomenon that responds to cultural shifts as Yorùbá people inhabit an increasingly globalized world.

Yoruba Culture
Yoruba Culture

Author: Kola Abimbola

Publisher: iroko academic publishers

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781905388004

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Vigilant Things
Vigilant Things

Author: David Todd Doris

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13:

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"Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called ààlè to protect their properties from the ravages of thieves. Ààlè are objects of such unassuming appearance that a non-Yoruba viewer might not register their important presence in the Yoruba visual landscape. David T. Doris argues that ààlè are keys to understanding how images function in Yoruba social and cultural life."--Publisher description.

The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present
The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present

Author: Aribidesi Usman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 1107064600

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A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.