MiataDrivers - Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and The Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria
David T Doris
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Vigilant Things: On Thieves, David T Doris epub Vigilant Things: On Thieves, David T Doris pdf download Vigilant Things: On Thieves, David T Doris pdf file Vigilant Things: On Thieves, David T Doris audiobook Vigilant Things: On Thieves, David T Doris book review Vigilant Things: On Thieves, David T Doris summary | #2329762 in Books | 2011-06-03 | 2011-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.29 x1.25 x7.33l,2.73 | File type: PDF | 416 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| The power of "things"|By Jacquelynn Baas|There is much to be learned from this intelligent and beautifully written book. Vigilant Things presents groundbreaking thinking not only about what culture is, but also about what power is--the power of art. Written in a lively, first-person narrative style, this nuanced account of "thieves, Yoruba anti-aesthetics, and the strange fat||"In this engaging, frank, and insightful documentation of how insignificant things are transformed into art pieces in Yoruba cultural milieu, the author negates some Western myths about the Yoruba―specifically, that they are primitive and therefore lack deve
Winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits award (African Studies Association)
Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called aale to protect their properties―farms, gardens, market goods, firewood―from the ravages of thieves. Aale are objects of such unassuming appearance that a non-Yoruba viewer might not register their important presence in the Yoruba visual landscape: a dried seedpod tied with palm fronds to the trunk of a fruit...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and The Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria | David T Doris. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
