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The Gẹ̀lẹ̀dé spectacle : art, gender, and social harmony in an African culture / Babatunde Lawal.

The Gẹ̀lẹ̀dé spectacle : art, gender, and social har...

The Gẹ̀lẹ̀dé spectacle : art, gender, and social harmony in an African culture / Babatunde Lawal.

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvpDEKbEVA

The Gẹ̀lẹ̀dé spectacle : art, gender, and social harmony in an African culture / Babatunde Lawal.

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Full title

The Gẹ̀lẹ̀dé spectacle : art, gender, and social harmony in an African culture / Babatunde Lawal.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1996.

Call Numbers

N966.00496/1

Record Identifier

74VvpDEKbEVA

MMS ID

991005142079702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xxiv, 327 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Contents

Note on Orthography and Tone Markings -- 1. African Art and the Social Order -- 2. Iwa: The Dialectics of Yoruba Existence -- 3. Ipilese: The Roots of Gelede -- 4. Irepo: Gender and Social Harmony Through Gelede -- 5. Iran: The Gelede Spectacle -- 6. Idira: Costume Aesthetics and Iconography -- 7. I...

Publication information

Publisher

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1996.

Place of Publication

Washington (State)

Date Published

c1996.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

The Gelede Spectacle is illustrated in color and black-and-white with over 150 field and museum photographs, including a rare sequence on the dressing of a masquerader. It offers, in addition, more than 60 Gelede song texts, proverbs, and divination verses, each in the original Yoruba as well as in translation. Lawal's interpretations of these piec...

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Full title

The Gẹ̀lẹ̀dé spectacle : art, gender, and social harmony in an African culture / Babatunde Lawal.

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Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-310) and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c1996.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N966.00496/1

Record Identifier

74VvpDEKbEVA

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvpDEKbEVA

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ISBN

0295975997 :

029597527X (alk. paper)

9780295975993 (paper: alk. paper)

0295975997 (paper: alk. paper)

9780295975993 :

DDC

966.00496333

MMS ID

991005142079702626

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