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Yoruba art and language : seeking the African in African art / Rowland Abiodun, Amherst College.
Penn Museum Library N7399.N5 A25 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abiodun, Rowland, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Yoruba.
- Yoruba language.
- Philosophy, Yoruba.
- Language and languages in art.
- Art--Nigeria, Southwest.
- Art.
- Art, African--Philosophy.
- Art, African.
- Southwest Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 386 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Introduction : on the centrality of Africa in African art studies
- Orí : no òrìṣà blesses a person without the consent of his/her orí
- Àṣẹ : the empowered word must come to pass
- Ọ̀ṣun : the corpulent woman whose waist two arms cannot encompass
- Ọ̀rúnmìlà : henceforth, Ifá priests will ride horses
- We greet Aṣọ before we greet its wearer
- Àkó : re/minding is the antidote for forgetfulness
- Ilé-Ifẹ̀ : the place where the day dawns
- Yorùbá aesthetics : ìwà, ìwà is what we are searching for, ìwà
- Tomorrow, today's elder sibling.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-372) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107047440
- 1107047447
- OCLC:
- 855488780
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