Yoruba ritual : performers, play, agency
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書誌事項
Yoruba ritual : performers, play, agency
（African systems of thought）
Indiana University Press, c1992
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注記
Includes bibliographical references: p. [221]-234 and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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, transformative experience of ritual participation. "Yoruba Ritual" is an original and provocative study of these practices. Using a performance paradigm, Margaret Thompson Drewal forges a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of ritual that is thoroughly grounded in close analysis of the thoughts and actions of the participants. Challenging traditional notions of ritual as rigid, stereotypic, and invariant, Drewal reveals ritual to be progressive, transformative, generative, and reflexive and replete with simultaneity, multifocality, contingency, indeterminacy, and intertextuality. Throughout the book prominence is given to the intentionality of actors as knowledgeable agents who transform ritual itself through play and improvisation.
Integral to the narrative are interpolations about performances and their meanings by Kolawole Ositola, a scholar of Yoruba oral tradition, ritual practitioner, diviner, and master performer. Rich descriptions of rituals relating to birth, death, reincarnation, divination, and constructions of gender are rendered all the more vivid by a generous selection of field photos of actual performances.
目次
List of Illustrations A Companion Video ReaderOs Road Map Acknowledgments 1. Theory and Method in the Study of Ritual Performance 2. Yoruba Play and the Tranformation of Ritual 3. The Ontological Journey 4. New Beginnings 5. Establishing the Self 6. Ritual Play about Play: Performing Miracles in Honor of the Ancestors 7. The Collective in Conflict, or, the Play of Personalities 8. From Militarism to Dandyism: The Shaping of Performance 9. Reinventing Ritual: The Imewuro Annual Rally 10. Gender Play Envoi Glossary Notes Sources Cited Index
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