عنوان

Colonial Modernity, Rituals and Feasting in Odùduwà Grove, Ilé-Ifẹ̀ (Nigeria)

شماره

LA113569

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Colonial Modernity, Rituals and Feasting in Odùduwà Grove, Ilé-Ifẹ̀ (Nigeria)

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Akinwumi Ogundiran, Adisa Ogunfolakan, Akinwumi Ogundiran, et al.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Sacred groves are ubiquitous on the cultural landscape of Ilé-Ifẹ̀ and they have been the site of most archaeological research in the ancient Yoruba city. But these studies have been driven by the view that sacred groves were places of static ritual traditions. Recovering the paraphernalia of those rituals, especially the exquisite sculptures, therefore preoccupied the pioneering archaeological research in Ilé-Ifẹ̀. In contrast, the historical trajectories that defined the evolution and transformation of these groves as dynamic cultural sites have not been undertaken. We make the case in this article that sacred groves are dynamic and meaningful sites for historical negotiation. With this perspective, we conducted archaeological study of Odùduwà Grove in Ile-Ife with the goal to understand the broad sociocultural processes that have shaped the cultural landscape of the grove across different registers of time. The archaeological evidence in Odùduwà Grove dates back to at least the fourteenth century. We focus this article on the evolution of the grove during the twentieth century with emphasis on the materiality of colonial and postcolonial modernity and its implications for rituals of royal coronation, sacrificial rites, and feasting. Sacred groves are ubiquitous on the cultural landscape of Ilé-Ifẹ̀ and they have been the site of most archaeological research in the ancient Yoruba city. But these studies have been driven by the view that sacred groves were places of static ritual traditions. Recovering the paraphernalia of those rituals, especially the exquisite sculptures, therefore preoccupied the pioneering archaeological research in Ilé-Ifẹ̀. In contrast, the historical trajectories that defined the evolution and transformation of these groves as dynamic cultural sites have not been undertaken. We make the case in this article that sacred groves are dynamic and meaningful sites for historical negotiation. With this perspective, we conducted archaeological study of Odùduwà Grove in Ile-Ife with the goal to understand the broad sociocultural processes that have shaped the cultural landscape of the grove across different registers of time. The archaeological evidence in Odùduwà Grove dates back to at least the fourteenth century. We focus this article on the evolution of the grove during the twentieth century with emphasis on the materiality of colonial and postcolonial modernity and its implications for rituals of royal coronation, sacrificial rites, and feasting.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

77-103

عنوان

Journal of African Archaeology

شماره جلد

15/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2191-5784

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Archaeology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Art History

اصطلاح موضوعی

colonial modernity

اصطلاح موضوعی

feasting

اصطلاح موضوعی

General

اصطلاح موضوعی

Ilé-Ifẹ̀

اصطلاح موضوعی

Odùduwà

اصطلاح موضوعی

ritual

اصطلاح موضوعی

sacred grove

اصطلاح موضوعی

Yorùbá

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Adisa Ogunfolakan

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Akinwumi Ogundiran

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/21915784-12340004

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y