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Title: | Legislative gossip as theatre: Odeli and Abule of Ibaji of East-central Nigeria |
Author: | Akoh, Ameh Dennis |
Year: | 2016 |
Periodical: | African Performance Review (ISSN 1753-5964) |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 17-29 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | masquerades drama theatre |
Abstract: | The author discusses the concept of legislative gossip masquerade performances among the Ibaji (Nigeria) as a ritualistic model of societal cleansing. Advancing the concept of legislative gossip as gossip that is backed by traditional law, he looks a both masked and non-masked masquerades (facekuerades) and concludes that the masquerade culture as theatre among the Ibaji is a form of cultural expression as well as communal action. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |