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8:30-8:50: Welcome and breakfast
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9:30 Opening Remarks:
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Introduction
by Professor Tukufu Zuberi, Director
of the African Studies Center |
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10:00-11:15 Panel I: "Interpretation
of Oral Texts"
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Chair:
Prof. Anne Bailey, Department
of History, University of Pennsylvania |
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Discussants:
-Tonya Taylor, Departments of
Anthropology and Graduate Program
in Folklore & Folklife
- David Samper, Graduate Program
in Folklore & Folklife
Suggested Readings:
- "I
Could Speak Until Tomorrow: Oriki,
Women and the Past in a Yoruba
Town." Edinburgh University
Press for the International African
Institute. 1991.
- "Interpreting
oriki as history and as literature,"
in Discourse and its Disguises,
ed. Barber and Moraes Farias,
1989 (13-23).
- "Yoruba
Oriki and deconstructive criticism,"
Research in African Literatures,
15, 4, 1984. (497-518).
- "Preliminary
notes on audiences in Africa"
in Africa 67(3):347-362 (1997)
- "Discursive
strategies in the texts of Ifa
and in the 'Holy Book of Odu'
of the African Church of Orunmila."
In Self-Assertion and Brokerage,
1990, ed. P.F. de Moraes Farias
and Karin Barber. Birmingham:
Birmingham University African
Studies Series 2, Centre of West
African Studies, pp. 196-240.
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11:15-11:30 Break
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11:30-12:45: Panel II: "Popular
Culture"
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Chair:
Prof. Dan Ben-Amos, Department
of Folklore & Folklife, University
of Pennsylvania |
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Discussants:
-Cati Coe, Graduate Program in
Folklore & Folklife
-Wendi Haugh, Department of Anthropology
Suggested Readings:
- "Popular
Arts in Africa" in African
Studies Review 30(3):1-78 (1987)
plus several commentaries and
her response "Preliminary
notes on audiences in Africa"
in Africa 67(3):347-362 (1997)
- "Readings
in African Popular Culture"(1997)
"Introduction" (1-12)
"Popular Reactions to the
Petro-Naira" (91-98; orig.
1982)
- "West
African Popular Theater"
(1997) "Introduction"
(vii-xix) "The Eda Theatre
and The Secret is Out" (183-209)
"Text of The Secret is Out"
(210-276)
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12:45-2:15: Lunch Gold Standard
36th & Locust Walk
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2:15-3:30 Panel 3: "Women,
Power, Religion in West Africa"
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Chair:
Prof. Sandra Barnes, Department
of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania |
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Discussants:
-Solimar Otero, Graduate Program
in Folklore & Folklife -Angela
Moore, Department of Anthropology
- Rudolph T. Ware, Department of
History
Suggested Readings:
- Barber, Karin.1981.
"How man makes god in West
Africa:Yoruba attitudes towards
the orisa ." Africa 51, no.
3: 724-745.
- Barber,
Karin. 1990. "Ormkl, women
and the proliferation and merging
of orisa ." Africa 60 ( 3):
313-337.
- Barber,
Karin 1990a. "Discursive strategies
in the texts of Ifa and in the 'Holy
Book of Odu' of the African Church
of Orunmila." In Self-Assertion
and Brokerage, ed. P.F. de Moraes
Farias and Karin Barber. Birmingham:
Birmingham University African Studies
Series 2, Centre of West African
Studies, pp. 196-240.
- Barber,
Karin1994. "Polyvocality and
the individual talent: three women
oriki - singers in Okuku."
In The Yoruba Artist, eds. Abiodun,
Drewal, and Pemberton. Washington
and London:Smithsonian Press.
- Barber,
Karin 1994a. "Going too far
in Okuku: some ideas about gender,
excess, and political power."In
Gender and Identity in Africa, eds.
Reh and Gudrun Ludwar-Ene. Munster/Hamburg. |
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3:30-3:45: Break
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3:45-5:00: Workshop: "Yoruba-West
African Popular Theater"
Room: Stiteler Hall B6
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Recommended
reading: 1994. "Yoruba Popular
Theater: Three Plays by the Oyin
Adejobi Company." Authored
with Bayo Ogundijo. Play "Laniyonu"
and Introduction.
During this
workshop, we will use the above
readings as common basis from
which to discuss issues such as
problems of textual analysis,
translation, how to analyse live,
ephemeral performances, and so
on by looking at the text and
viewing excerpts of videos of
the performances.
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All of the readings are available
at the African Studies Center 647
Williams Hall. Please
contact Clarissa Surek-Clark (surekcla@babel.ling.upenn.edu)
or the African Studies Center with
any questions. |
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