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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-17 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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There is a culturally significant way of being Yorùbá that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations—no matter where in the world they take pl
Yoruba Art and Language
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Authors: Rowland Abiodun
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking w
The Yoruba
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The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of th
The Shattered Gourd
Language: en
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The Shattered Gourd uses the lens of visual art to examine connections between the United States and the Yoruba region of western Nigeria. In Yoruba legend, the