Yoruba work and art categorization

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Title:	Yoruba work and art categorization
Author:	Duran, Jane
Year:	2006
Periodical:	Philosophia Africana: Analysis of Philosophy and Issues in Africa and the Black Diaspora
Volume:	9
Issue:	1
Pages:	35-40
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	aesthetics philosophy Yoruba
Abstract:	This paper shows that the Yoruba of Nigeria employ an aesthetic categorization that is significantly different from that ordinarily used in the Western sense. Although the Western tradition in aesthetics may well have begun with a reliance upon metaphysical and/or ontological categories, since roughly the 18th century work in aesthetics has been somewhat separated from other areas of philosophy and has taken on a life of its own. The aesthetics of Yoruba culture, however, cannot be divorced from its metaphysics. Because of the Yoruba belief that spirit is contained in all things, the categories of beauty employed by the Yoruba intersect with their notion of spirit - they are not independent of it. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]