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.
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.
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
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
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