Name: What the forest told me Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance
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Contents

List of Plates & Tables xi Acknowledgements xiii Preface xiv

Hunter, Hunting and a Yoruba World 1

Introduction 1 Ìgbẹ́ Alágogo: A glimpse into the hunters’ world

Folklore and redefinition of performance

Scope and methodology

Art, the Hunter’s World and the Death of Fixity

Introduction

The performance art of hunters’ narratives

Ìbà (Acknowledgement and appeal)

Proverb 19 Oríkì

Ọfọ̀ incantation

Ìjálá, Ìrèmọ̀ jé and the hunter’s allergy to fixity

Conceptualising narrativity between fact and fiction

The Hunter and the Other

Introduction

Dualism, African cultural discourse, and the hunter

Man the hunter and the supernatural

Forest the indeterminate

Negotiating the Formidable

Introduction

The hunter, the Other and the limits of man

Familiarisation and defamiliarisation

Truth, mythmaking and management of credibility risk 80 Language and the portrait of anOther world

The Hunter on the Airwaves

Introduction

The ethic of silence and the imperative of narrativity

Broadcast media and the ‘sin’ of narrative reconstruction

Conclusion 100 Appendix A: The narrative of Músílíù Àlàgbé Fìríàáríkú

Appendix B: The narrative of Rábíù Òjó

Appendix C: The narrative of Jọ́ ògún Àlàdé

Appendix D: The narrative of Ògúnkúnlé Òjó

Appendix E: The narrative of Ọláníyì Ọládèj̣ ọ Yáwóọ̣ ré ̣

Appendix F: The narrative of Kọ̀bọmọjẹ́ Àlàdé 120 References

Index

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