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Ancestral Power, Performance, and Agency in Egungun Artistry
出版Africa World Press, 2019
主題History / Africa / South / Republic of South AfricaPolitical Science / Public Opinion PollingTechnology & Engineering / Environmental / GeneralTechnology & Engineering / Environmental / Waste Management
ISBN15690262629781569026267
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DZ03wAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Fabric of Immortality focuses on Egungun masking, a unique cultural tradition practiced by the Yoruba of West Africa and their descendants in the African Diaspora, particularly in Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Trinidad, Venezuela and the United States of America. Egungun performances provide a vehicle and arena for dialogic reflections and celebrations, parody and play, and communication between the living and the departed, the seen and the unseen, upon which the stability of the human community and the universe is dependent. A great many varieties of these masks celebrate the guild of hunters and warriors, legendary heroes and heroines and founding ancestors including the legion of divinities straddling the landscape of Yoruba universe"--