In Yoruba culture oriki, or oral praise poetry, is a major part of both traditional performance and daily life, and as such reflects social change and structure both past and present. Karin Barber studies the oriki poetry of Okuku, a small town in the Oyo state of Nigeria. She shows how women, the main performers of the oriki, interpret the poems and examines the links it gives them between living and dead, human and spiritual, and present and past.
- ISBN10 0748602100
- ISBN13 9780748602100
- Publish Date 25 April 1991
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 23 June 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Edinburgh University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English
- URL http://eup.ed.ac.uk/journals/content.aspx?pageId=1&journalId=11659