Yoruba Religious Textiles
Author : Elisha P. Renne
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Church vestments
ISBN :
A History of Textiles and Fashion in the Twentieth Century Yoruba World
Author : Mutiat Titilope Oladejo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Design
ISBN : 1527579239
Book Description
From the local to the global, Yoruba people cherish textile consumption and fashion in everyday life. Central to this is the role of Yoruba women in the making of a fashion culture. As this book shows, textile commodities are entangled in global economic histories, yet the local consumption culture has created a fashion industry that portrays new ways of work and talent display beyond the twentieth century. This text is useful for researchers who wish to gain deeper insights into a critical, but often neglected, aspect of being Yoruba.
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality
Author : Vasudha Narayanan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1118688325
Book Description
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality provides a thoughtfully organized, inclusive, and vibrant project of the multiple ways in which religion and materiality intersect. The contributions explore the way that religion is shaped by, and has shaped, the material world, embedding beliefs, doctrines, and texts into social and cultural contexts of production, circulation, and consumption. The Companion not only contains scholarly essays but has an accompanying website to demonstrate the work of performers, architects, and expressive artists, ranging from musicians and dancers to religious practitioners. These examples offer specific illustrations of the interplay of religion and materiality in everyday life. The project is organized from a comparative perspective, highlighting examples and case studies from traditions originating in both East and West. To summarize, the volume: Brings together the leading figures, theories and ideas in the field in a systematic and comprehensive way Offers an interdisciplinary approach drawing together religious studies, anthropology, archaeology, history, sociology, geography, the cognitive sciences, ecology, and media studies Takes a comparative perspective, covering all the major faith traditions
African Textiles
Author : John Gillow
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0811841669
Book Description
Traces a boy's journey across India as he searches for a sacred buffalo bell stolen from his tribe.
Yoruba Art and Language
Author : Rowland Abiodun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139992872
Book Description
The Yoruba was one of the most important civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa. While the high quality and range of its artistic and material production have long been recognized, the art of the Yoruba has been judged primarily according to the standards and principles of Western aesthetics. In this book, which merges the methods of art history, archaeology, and anthropology, Rowland Abiodun offers new insights into Yoruba art and material culture by examining them within the context of the civilization's cultural norms and values and, above all, the Yoruba language. Abiodun draws on his fluency and prodigious knowledge of Yoruba culture and language to dramatically enrich our understanding of Yoruba civilization and its arts. The book includes a companion website with audio clips of the Yoruba language, helping the reader better grasp the integral connection between art and language in Yoruba culture.
Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People
Author : Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1621967190
Book Description
This is a book on the social and cultural history of Yoruba people, a people in southwest Nigeria. As the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of Yoruba dress in historical perspective, this book is an important contribution to African history in general and the Yoruba cultural history in particular. The book illuminates the impact of Christianity, Islam, and British colonialism on the construction of Yoruba identity, and how dress was entangled in that construction. It also provides insightful discussions of the transformations in dress culture since independence and demonstrates the importance of dress as a site for contesting and articulating postcolonial Yoruba identity and class structure within the Nigerian national space. This book provides many insights into these issues and is thus an invaluable addition to Africana studies, anthropology, and history.
Divining the Self
Author : Velma E. Love
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271061456
Book Description
Divining the Self weaves elements of personal narrative, myth, history, and interpretive analysis into a vibrant tapestry that reflects the textured, embodied, and performative nature of scripture and scripturalizing practices. Velma Love examines the Odu—the Yoruba sacred scriptures—along with the accompanying mythology, philosophy, and ritual technologies engaged by African Americans. Drawing from the personal narratives of African American Ifa practitioners along with additional ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oyotunji African Village, South Carolina, and New York City, Love’s work explores the ways in which an ancient worldview survives in modern times. Divining the Self also takes up the challenge of determining what it means for the scholar of religion to study scripture as both text and performance. This work provides an excellent case study of the sociocultural phenomenon of scripturalizing practices.
Decolonizing African Knowledge
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1009059173
Book Description
Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the 'Self' and Yoruba Being (the individual and the collective) in the context of the African decolonial project, Falola strips away Eurocentric influences and interruptions from African epistemology. Avoiding colonial archival sources, it grounds itself in alternative archives created by memory, spoken words, images and photographs to look at the themes of politics, culture, nation, ethnicity, satire, poetics, magic, myth, metaphor, sculpture, textiles, hair and gender. Vividly illustrated in colour, it uses diverse and novel methods to access an African way of knowing. Exploring the different ways that a society understands and presents itself, this book highlights convergence, enmeshing private and public data to provide a comprehensive understanding of society, public consciousness, and cultural identity.
The fabrics of culture
Author : Justine M. Cordwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3111631524
Book Description
Yoruba Religious Textiles
Author : Elisha P. Renne
Publisher :
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Church vestments
ISBN : 9789788088110
