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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The Living Dead: Art and Immortality among the Yoruba of Nigeria |
Author: | Lawal, Babatunde |
Year: | 1977 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 50-61 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | reincarnation Yoruba Architecture and the Arts Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159194 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1977-047-00-000005 |
Abstract: | To understand the extent to which art has been used to achieve immortality among the Yoruba, it is necessary to known their concepts of man as well as Death. The Yoruba belief in reincarnation; there are two types of reincarnation: one occurs when a dead ancestor is believed to have reborn in the same family, in the second type it is the soul of a group of spirit children which steals into the womb of a pregnant woman, and is born in what might be calles a 'borrowed' body. In both incarnations sculpture plays an important role. Photographs, notes, ref., résumé en français. |