Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and The Strange Fates of Ordinar... (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)

Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and The Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)

Af: David T Doris


Forlag: University of Washington Press

  • Type: Bog
  • Format: Hardback
  • Sprog: Engelsk Sprog: Engelsk
  • ISBN-13: 9780295990736
  • Udgivelsesdato: 03-06-2011
  • Første udgivelsesår: 2011
  • Illustrationer: 87 illus., 77 in color
  • Originalsprog: United States
  • Sideantal: 416
  • Indbinding: Hardback
  • Forlag: University of Washington Press
  • Sideoplysninger: 416 pages, 87 illus., 77 in color
  • Mål: 257 x 185 x 33

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Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called aale to protect their properties-farms, gardens, market goods, piles of collected firewood-from the ravages of thieves and Vigilant Things argues that aale are keys to understanding how images function in Yoruba social and cultural life.

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