What the forest told me

Ayo Adeduntan

Description

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.

Informations

• Publié par: NISC (Pty) Ltd
• Date de parution: 12 avril 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781920033422
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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Dedication

Oladele Olatunde Layiwola …teacher, mentor, idea

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Published in this series

Domînîca Dîpîo,Gender terrains in African cinema, 2014 Ayo Adeduntan,WHat tHe forest told me: Yoruba Hunter, culture and narrative performance,2014 Sule E. Egya,Nation, power and dissidence in tHird-generation Nigerian poetry in EnglisH, 2014 Irîkîdzayî Manase,WHite narratives: he depiction of post-2000 land invasions in Zimbabwe, 2016 Pasca Mungwînî, Indigenous SHona PHilosopHy: Reconstructive insigHts, 2017 Sylvîa Bruînders,Parading Respectability: he Cultural and Moral AestHetics of tHe CHristmas Bands Movement in tHe Western Cape, SoutH Africa, 2017 Mîcael Andîndîlîle,he AnglopHone literary-linguistic continuum: EnglisH and indigenous languages in African literary discourse, 2018 Jeremîa Arowosegbe,Claude E Ake: tHe making of an organic intellectual, 2018 Romanus Abo,Language and tHe construction of multiple identities in tHe Nigerian novel, 2018 Bernard Matolîno,Consensus as Democracy in Africa,2018 Babajîde Ololajulo,UnsHared Identity:PostHumous paternity in a contemporary Yoruba community,2018

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...a story that must be told never forgives silence. – Okey Ndibe

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

Ayo Adeduntan

Orîgînally publîsed în 2014 by Unîsa Press, Sout Arîca under ISBN: 978-1-86888-739-2

hîs edîtîon publîsed în Sout Arîca on beal o te Arîcan Humanîtîes Program by NISC (Pty) Ltd, PO Box 377, Graamstown, 6140, Sout Arîca www.nîsc.co.za

NISC irst edîtîon, irst împressîon 2019

Publîcatîon © Arîcan Humanîtîes Program 2014, 2019 Text © Ayo Adeduntan 2014, 2019 All rîgts reserved. No part o tîs publîcatîon may be reproduced or transmîtted în any orm or by any means, electronîc or mecanîcal, încludîng potocopyîng, recordîng, or any înormatîon storage or retrîeval system, wîtout prîor permîssîon în wrîtîng rom te publîser.

ISBN: 978-1-920033-41-5 (prînt) ISBN: 978-1-920033-42-2 (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-920033-43-9 (ePub)

Project Edîtor: Tsegoatso Selodîmela Book Desîgner: Kedîbone Pîrî Edîtor: Gaîl Malcomson Typesettîng: Nozîpo Noble Indexer: Hannalîe Knoetze

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List of Plates & Tables

Acknowledgements

Preface

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Contents

Hunter, Hunting and a Yoruba World

Introduction gbẹAĺgogo: A glimpse into the hunters’ world 

Folklore and redeînition of performance Scope and methodology

Art, the Hunter’s World and the Death of Fixity

Introduction The performance art of hunters’ narratives Ìbà (Acknowledgement and appeal) Proverb Oríkì fọ̀incantation Ìj́la,r̀mọje and the hunter’s allergy to îxity  Conceptualising narrativity between fact and îction

The Hunter and the Other

Introduction Dualism, African cultural discourse, and the hunter Man the hunter and the supernatural Forest the indeterminate

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