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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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La rinascita della tragedia dallo spirito del blues nel teatro di August Wilson
Le Simplegadi, 2020 Born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August Wilson was the most prolific and represented African American playwright of the twentieth century. His Century Cycle, a series of ten plays that chronicle the lives of African Americans from the early ...
Valentina Rapetti
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The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present
, 2019 This book provides a broad, chronological history of the Yoruba that emphasizes several overarching interpretive themes useful to the general reader, students, and specialists in the i elds of African Studies, African Diaspora, Black Atlantic, Atlantic ...
A. Usman, T. Fálolá
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Manifestations of Orí (Head) in Traditional Yorùbá Architecture
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2020 Yorùbá traditional architecture is not spontaneous. It is a product of a well-structured cultural and religious system. Every aspect from the choice of material, to the style of building, and even its construction system was designed with primary ...
Adeyemi Akande
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‘No Sweet in Sex’: Perceptions of Condom Usefulness among Elderly Yoruba People in Ibadan Nigeria
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 2018 Emerging evidence has shown a gradual increase in sexually transmitted infections among elderly. This study explores the views of elderly Yoruba men and women (60+) on condoms use and its suitability against sexual infections.
O. Agunbiade, Dimeji Togunde
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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Harmonia Rosales: la realidad histórica a través del sincretismo religioso en The Harvest
Alejandría, 2022 The Afro-Cuban American artist Harmonia Rosales focuses her artwork on the reinterpretation of Renaissance masterpieces. Specifically, her paintings question the white Eurocentrism that continues to exert abuses of power today towards minorities since ...
Paula Martínez Bernal
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Representation of Yorùbá Tones by a Talking Drum: An Acoustic Analysis
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2019 The present paper proposes an articulatory and acoustic study of the representation of Yorùbá tones in gángan (a talking drum). The video and spectrographic analyses of the data collected from five native drummers in Nigeria show the number of syllables
S. Akinbo
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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