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I could speak until tomorrow : oriki, women and the past in a Yoruba town

A study of oriki, or oral praise poetry, which is a major part of both traditional performance and daily Yoruba life.-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, ©1991
Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, Edinburgh, ©1991
1 online resource (ix, 354 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps, portraits.
9780748602100, 9780748699186, 9780748602872, 0748602100, 074869918X, 0748602879
57683094
Anthropology, text and town; the interpretation of "oriki"; "oriki" in Okuku; contexts of performance; the 'oriki" of origin; the "oriki" of big men; disjunction and transition.
"For the International African Institute, London."
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010