Animals in the Traditional Worldview of the Yorùbá

Autor:	Ajibade George Olusola
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Folklore Anthropology media_common.quotation_subject Taboo Yoruba Globe Environmental ethics Space (commercial competition) language.human_language Politics medicine.anatomical_structure Perception Animal ethics medicine language Sociology media_common
Zdroj:	Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore. 30:155-172
ISSN:	1406-0949 1406-0957
DOI:	10.7592/fejf2005.30.olusala
Popis:	This is a contribution to an on-going debate on animal ethics. It is an epistemological study into the Yoruba beliefs and perceptions about animals that have existed and still exist in the areas they inhabit. The research sets out to elucidate the Yoruba perception of animals with regard to their classification, habitat, and their role and position in religious, political, social, economic, and domestic domains of humans. This leads to an appraisal of relationships that exist between the Yoruba people and animals in their communities. The study explores the Yoruba folklore in its various dimensions as the paradigm to espouse their ontological perception of animals. The study concludes that the Yoruba people attach much importance to their animals and that animals occupy an important place and space in human existence and life on the globe.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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