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.
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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.
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Fine in fine jacket. Oriki, Women and the Past in a Yoruba Town. 8vo. x, [2], 354 pp. Bound in black boards in red dust jacket printed in white, brown, and black. Black and white maps and illustrations. Includes bibliography and index. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book is in Near Fine condition, with prior owner name written on front endpaper. Pages clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine condition, with some creasing to rear jacket flap. Now in Brodart dust jacket protector.
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