Gẹlẹdẹ : art and female power among the Yoruba

Author(s)

• Drewal, Henry John
• Drewal, Margaret Thompson

Bibliographic Information

Gẹlẹdẹ : art and female power among the Yoruba

Henry John Drewal and Margaret Thompson Drewal

（Traditional arts of Africa）

Indiana University Press, 1990

1st Midland Book ed

Note

Bibliography: p. 293-299

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface Note of Orthography Map 1. Yoruba Spectacle 2. Gelede Performance 3. Efe Songs--Voicing Power 4. The Masks and Costumes of Efe Night 5. The Dance: Texturing Time and Space 6. The Masks of Gelede 7. A Historical and Thematic Overview 8. Gelede and the Individual Notes on Text Notes on Plates References Index

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Details

• NCID: BA10973694
• ISBN:
  • 0253325692
• LCCN: 82048388
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington
• Pages/Volumes: xxi, 306 p., [9] p. of plates
• Size: 27 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DT515.45.Y67
  • DC19 : 306/.089963
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Yoruba (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies
  • LCSH : Women, Yoruba (African people)
  • LCSH : Yoruba (African people) -- Religion
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10973741