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What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance

What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance

Adeduntan, Ayo

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1920033416
ISBN13: 9781920033415
Publisher: Nisc (Pty) Ltd
Published: Apr 12 2019
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

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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