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Gender, performance and communication : African Ikeji mask festivals of Aro and diaspora
- Title
- Gender, performance and communication : African Ikeji mask festivals of Aro and diaspora / Chinyere G. Okafor.
- Author
- Okafor, Chinyere Grace
- Publication
- Trenton : Africa World Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xxxii, 316 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Communicating the inscrutable -- Patriarchal origins and Aro expansion -- Men and women in governance -- Gendering the spirits -- Festival myth and celebration -- Diaspora faces of the festival -- Omumu matriarchal center -- Transition ceremonies and female masks -- Masculinity in masking -- Display of gender -- Male representation and mysticism -- Communication and performance conventions -- Communication and total theater -- Gender and African identity through the masking lens.
- Call Number
- Sc D 17-2038
- ISBN
- 9781592219520
- 1592219527
- 9781592219537
- 1592219535
- LCCN
- 2017026468
- OCLC
- 989811357
- Author
- Okafor, Chinyere Grace, author.
- Title
- Gender, performance and communication : African Ikeji mask festivals of Aro and diaspora / Chinyere G. Okafor.
- Publisher
- Trenton : Africa World Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 17-2038