David T. Doris

Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and the Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria

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Produktbeschreibung

Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called aale to protect their properties--farms, gardens, market goods, piles of collected firewood--from the ravages of thieves. In Vigilant Things, David T. Doris argues that aale are keys to understanding how images function in Yoruba social and cultural life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Altersempfehlung: ab 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 186mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1234g
• ISBN-13: 9780295990736
• ISBN-10: 0295990732
• Artikelnr.: 29977514

Inhaltsangabe

Map 1. Yorubaland
Map 2. Detal of Map 1
Acknowledgements
A Note on Orthography
A Note on Language and Translation
A Note on Photography
Introduction
Part 1 - Creating Aale
Presence, Power, and the Past
Palm Fronds (Mariwo)
Part 2 - Call-and-Response
What We Look at and Remember
Color (Awo)
Part 3 - Portraits and Punishments
An Ontology of the Broken
Corncobs (Suku Agbado)
Snail Shells (Ikarawun Igbin)
Brooms (Igbale)
Coda
... This Semblance of Persistence
Appendix 1 A history of aale, by babalawo Kolawole Oshitola
Appendix 2 The origin of aale in the divination orature of Ifa, by babalawo
Ifarinwale Ogundiran
Appendix 3 A biography of Chief Apena Ajawesola Awala Omo Iyamokun, by
himself
Glossary
Works Consulted
Index