Ayo Adeduntan

What the forest told me (eBook, ePUB)

Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Studies of Yoruba culture and performance tend to focus mainly on standardised forms of performance, and ignore the more prevalent performance culture which is central to everyday life. What the Forest Told Me conveys the elastic nature of African cultural expression through narratives of the Yoruba hunters' exploits. Hunters' narratives provide a window on the Yoruba understanding and explanation of their world; a cosmology that negates the anthropocentric view of creation. In a very literal sense, man, in this peculiar world, is an equal actor with animal and nature spirits with whom he constantly contests and negotiates space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NISC (Pty) Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781920033439
• Artikelnr.: 56897960

Autorenporträt

Ayo Adeduntan was educated at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and University of Ibadan. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Literature from Obafemi Awolowo University, and Master of Arts in the same discipline from University of Ibadan. He completed his PhD in Cultural and Performance Studies at the Institute of African Studies, University of lbadan. Since 2010, he has been teaching at the Institute of African Studies, Ibadan, in such areas as method and theory of field investigation; gender, ideology and performance; performance theory; prospects and problem of performance research, and indigenous approach to conflict resolution. His works have appeared in journals such as African Notes and Text and Performance Quarterly, and other edited volumes.