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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.

Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociolinguistics --- Africa --- Oral tradition --- Folklore --- Oral tradition. --- Folklore. --- #SBIB:39A2 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Storytelling --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Oral tradition - Africa --- Folklore - Africa

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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.

Laudatory poetry, Yoruba --- Women, Yoruba --- History and criticism --- Oyo State (Nigeria) --- Social life and customs --- Women, Yoruba (African people) --- Yoruba women --- Yoruba laudatory poetry --- Yoruba poetry --- Oyo, Nigeria (State) --- Western State (Nigeria) --- Osun State (Nigeria) --- Social life and customs. --- Culture --- Nigeria --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Women, Yoruba. --- History and criticism. --- Laudatory poetry, Yoruba - History and criticism --- Oyo State (Nigeria) - Social life and customs --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.

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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.

Popular culture --- Culture populaire --- History. --- Histoire --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Afrique subsaharienne --- Social life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- History --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Afrika --- afrika --- Afrika ; sociaal leven --- Histoire. --- Moeurs et coutumes.

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Yoruba language --- Yoruba language. --- English.

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