Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency by Margaret Thompson Drewal

Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency

Margaret Thompson Drewal

241 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

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Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria conceive of rituals as journeys sometimes actual, sometimes virtual. Performed as a parade or a procession, a pilgrimage, a masking display, or possession trance, the journey evokes the reflexive, progressive...

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