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The anthropology of texts, persons and publics
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ISBN: 9780521837873 9780521546874 0521837871 0521546877 9780511619656 9780511378744 0511378742 9780511376009 0511376006 0511619650 1107174929 9781107174924 1281243280 9781281243287 9786611243289 6611243283 0511377851 9780511377853 0511376944 9780511376948 9780511374500 051137450X Year: 2007 Volume: 5 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in which personhood is evoked, both in oral poetry and in written diaries and letters, discusses the audience's role in creating the meaning of texts, and shows textual creativity to be a universal human capacity expressed in myriad forms. Engaging and thought-provoking, this book will be welcomed by anyone interested in anthropology, literature and cultural studies.

I could speak until tomorrow
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ISBN: 0748602100 9780748602100 9780748699186 074869918X Year: 1991 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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In Yoruba culture oriki, or oral praise poetry, is a major part of both traditional performance and daily life, and as such reflects social change and structure both past and present. Karin Barber studies the oriki poetry of Okuku, a small town in the Oyo state of Nigeria. She shows how women, the main performers of the oriki, interpret the poems and examines the links it gives them between living and dead, human and spiritual, and present and past.

Readings in African popular culture
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ISBN: 0253211409 025333294X 085255236X 9780852552360 9780253332943 9780253211408 Year: 1997 Publisher: Bloomington, Ind.: International African Institute in association with Indiana University Press,


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A history of African popular culture
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ISBN: 9781107016897 1107016894 9781107624474 1107624479 9781139061766 1108340598 1108340253 1139061763 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns in the era of the slave trade, to the poetry and fiction of townships and mine compounds in South Africa, and from today's East African streets where Swahili hip hop artists gather to the juggernaut of the Nollywood film industry, this book weaves together a wealth of sites and scenes of cultural production. In doing so, it provides an ideal text for students and researchers seeking to learn more about the diversity, specificity and vibrancy of popular cultural forms in African history.

The generation of plays : Yorùbá popular life theater
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ISBN: 9780253338075 0253338077 Year: 2000 Publisher: Bloomington: Indiana university press,

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Yorùbá dùn ún sọ : a beginners' course in Yoruba
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ISBN: 0300029586 Year: 1984 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) : Yale university press,

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ISBN: 9781139061766 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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I Could Speak Until Tomorrow : Oriki, Women & the Past in a Yoruba Town
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ISBN: 9780748699186 9780748602100 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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Yorùbá popular theater : three plays by the Oyin Adéjọbí company
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ISBN: 0918456703 Year: 1994 Publisher: Waltham (Mass.) : African studies association,

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