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A Mosaic of Yorùbá Ontology and Materiality of Pleasure Since AD 1000
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AbstractWhat have been the meanings and meaningfulness of pleasure in Yorùbá thought, practice, and history over the past eight hundred years? Ogundiran draws from literary, archaeological, myth-historical, and ethnographic sources to answer this question in two parts. First, he examines the ontologies, materiality, and sociality of pleasure at the levels of ordinary experience and institutional culture. Second, he demonstrates how pleasurable experiences and things were used to construct social order, define social difference, and build community. Ogundiran concludes that pleasure is not an autonomous experience. Rather, it is embedded in other domains of social life.
Title: A Mosaic of Yorùbá Ontology and Materiality of Pleasure Since AD 1000
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AbstractWhat have been the meanings and meaningfulness of pleasure in Yorùbá thought, practice, and history over the past eight hundred years? Ogundiran draws from literary, archaeological, myth-historical, and ethnographic sources to answer this question in two parts.
First, he examines the ontologies, materiality, and sociality of pleasure at the levels of ordinary experience and institutional culture.
Second, he demonstrates how pleasurable experiences and things were used to construct social order, define social difference, and build community.
Ogundiran concludes that pleasure is not an autonomous experience.
Rather, it is embedded in other domains of social life.
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