Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 124075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olatunde Bayo |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawuyi |
| SIGNATURE | LAWUYI O B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ibadan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Depersonalized as Vanishing Hero and Heroine in Yorùbá Moral Placards
The paper critically examines the relationship between the idea of moral placards and the existence of Yorùbá heroes and heroines. It takes as its starting point the philosophical import of the Yoruba proverb. Ọjọ́ a bá kú là ń dère, èèyàn ò sunwọ̀n láàyè (It is on the day one dies that one becomes an idol; no one is appreciated when alive). The paper argues that in the imagination, reality, and social constructions of the Yorùbá, desirable exist…
Orí, Ayé and the ontogeny of society
It is difficult for any scholar on Yoruba culture to escape contact with the extensive literature on Orí, a metaphysical, ontological predicate for the existence of human selfhood, and self-other relations. This is not only because much has been written on the subject by scholars of different disciplinary persuasions, but also because this scholarship claims to be advancing, a peculiar point of view that originates a new way of looking at situati…
Driving sign exchange and social change: The cultural utility of transport as mirror of social relations in a Nigerian university community
Article Driving sign exchange and social change: The cultural utility of transport as mirror of social relations in a Nigerian university community was published on January 1, 1993 in the journal Semiotica (volume 95, issue 1-2)
The Dialogue with the Living: Biography in the Order of a Christian's Funeral Service in Yoruba Society
THE DIALOGUE WITH THE LIVING: BIOGRAPHY IN THE ORDER OF A CHRISTIAN'S FUNERAL SERVICE IN YORUBA SOCIETY BY OLATUNDE BAYO LAWUYI (Oyo State University of Technology, Nigeria) This article intends to fulfil two aims. The first is to present a biography and provide a short analysis of it, with a view to assisting other scholars in the use of this hitherto unexplored source of data. The biography that is analysed is a written document, part of an ela…
The social marketing of elites: The advertised self in obituaries and congratulations in some Nigerian dailies
This paper rests on the belief that various forms of advertisement of self such as the obituary and congratulation publications in the Nigerian daily newspapers exhibit a number of common themes in the imagery with which they handle the fact of achievement. Further, it argues that these themes may be a mix of modern and traditional criteria of success and represent an attempt by the elite to restate their superior attributes. The data were collec…
Obituary and Ancestral Worship: Analysis of A Contemporary Cultural Form in Nigeria
The understanding of the worldviews in obituaries has been approached from various vantage points. Some have focussed the linguistic content, the metaphors most especially (Kachru 1983; Lawuyi 1986a), while others have concentrated attention on the cultural presuppositions about social stratification and prestige (Lawuyi 1986b). It is argued that as a public symbol of image constructions, the obituaries represent the reality of the Nigerian socie…
Ogun: Diffusion across Boundaries and Identity Constructions
Les variations du symbolisme du dieu du fer et de la guerre yoruba, Ogun, au Nigeria et hors de son cadre d'origine. Les differents contextes sociaux qui correspondent a ces variations. Ogun comme symbole nationaliste
The world of the Yoruba taxi driver: An Interpretive Approach to Vehicle Slogans
Opening ParagraphThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the slogans which are so prominent and ubiquitous on motor vehicles as expressions of social stratification among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria. I interpret the slogans in the context of the taxi owners' and drivers' social interactions, not just as disembodied expressions of a total Yoruba world view. In studying the slogans I pay particular attention to processes of accumulation of w…
The world of the Yoruba taxi driver: An Interpretive Approach to Vehicle Slogans
Opening ParagraphThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the slogans which are so prominent and ubiquitous on motor vehicles as expressions of social stratification among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria. I interpret the slogans in the context of the taxi owners' and drivers' social interactions, not just as disembodied expressions of a total Yoruba world view. In studying the slogans I pay particular attention to processes of accumulation of w…
The social marketing of elites: The advertised self in obituaries and congratulations in some Nigerian dailies
This paper rests on the belief that various forms of advertisement of self such as the obituary and congratulation publications in the Nigerian daily newspapers exhibit a number of common themes in the imagery with which they handle the fact of achievement. Further, it argues that these themes may be a mix of modern and traditional criteria of success and represent an attempt by the elite to restate their superior attributes. The data were collec…
Obituary and Ancestral Worship: Analysis of A Contemporary Cultural Form in Nigeria
The understanding of the worldviews in obituaries has been approached from various vantage points. Some have focussed the linguistic content, the metaphors most especially (Kachru 1983; Lawuyi 1986a), while others have concentrated attention on the cultural presuppositions about social stratification and prestige (Lawuyi 1986b). It is argued that as a public symbol of image constructions, the obituaries represent the reality of the Nigerian socie…
Ogun: Diffusion across Boundaries and Identity Constructions
Les variations du symbolisme du dieu du fer et de la guerre yoruba, Ogun, au Nigeria et hors de son cadre d'origine. Les differents contextes sociaux qui correspondent a ces variations. Ogun comme symbole nationaliste
Orí, Ayé and the ontogeny of society
It is difficult for any scholar on Yoruba culture to escape contact with the extensive literature on Orí, a metaphysical, ontological predicate for the existence of human selfhood, and self-other relations. This is not only because much has been written on the subject by scholars of different disciplinary persuasions, but also because this scholarship claims to be advancing, a peculiar point of view that originates a new way of looking at situati…
Obituary and Ancestral Worship: Analysis of A Contemporary Cultural Form in Nigeria
The understanding of the worldviews in obituaries has been approached from various vantage points. Some have focussed the linguistic content, the metaphors most especially (Kachru 1983; Lawuyi 1986a), while others have concentrated attention on the cultural presuppositions about social stratification and prestige (Lawuyi 1986b). It is argued that as a public symbol of image constructions, the obituaries represent the reality of the Nigerian socie…
Ogun: Diffusion across Boundaries and Identity Constructions
Les variations du symbolisme du dieu du fer et de la guerre yoruba, Ogun, au Nigeria et hors de son cadre d'origine. Les differents contextes sociaux qui correspondent a ces variations. Ogun comme symbole nationaliste
The world of the Yoruba taxi driver: An Interpretive Approach to Vehicle Slogans
Opening ParagraphThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the slogans which are so prominent and ubiquitous on motor vehicles as expressions of social stratification among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria. I interpret the slogans in the context of the taxi owners' and drivers' social interactions, not just as disembodied expressions of a total Yoruba world view. In studying the slogans I pay particular attention to processes of accumulation of w…
The Dialogue with the Living: Biography in the Order of a Christian's Funeral Service in Yoruba Society
THE DIALOGUE WITH THE LIVING: BIOGRAPHY IN THE ORDER OF A CHRISTIAN'S FUNERAL SERVICE IN YORUBA SOCIETY BY OLATUNDE BAYO LAWUYI (Oyo State University of Technology, Nigeria) This article intends to fulfil two aims. The first is to present a biography and provide a short analysis of it, with a view to assisting other scholars in the use of this hitherto unexplored source of data. The biography that is analysed is a written document, part of an ela…
The social marketing of elites: The advertised self in obituaries and congratulations in some Nigerian dailies
This paper rests on the belief that various forms of advertisement of self such as the obituary and congratulation publications in the Nigerian daily newspapers exhibit a number of common themes in the imagery with which they handle the fact of achievement. Further, it argues that these themes may be a mix of modern and traditional criteria of success and represent an attempt by the elite to restate their superior attributes. The data were collec…
Driving sign exchange and social change: The cultural utility of transport as mirror of social relations in a Nigerian university community
Article Driving sign exchange and social change: The cultural utility of transport as mirror of social relations in a Nigerian university community was published on January 1, 1993 in the journal Semiotica (volume 95, issue 1-2)
The Depersonalized as Vanishing Hero and Heroine in Yorùbá Moral Placards
The paper critically examines the relationship between the idea of moral placards and the existence of Yorùbá heroes and heroines. It takes as its starting point the philosophical import of the Yoruba proverb. Ọjọ́ a bá kú là ń dère, èèyàn ò sunwọ̀n láàyè (It is on the day one dies that one becomes an idol; no one is appreciated when alive). The paper argues that in the imagination, reality, and social constructions of the Yorùbá, desirable exist…
Orí, Ayé and the ontogeny of society
It is difficult for any scholar on Yoruba culture to escape contact with the extensive literature on Orí, a metaphysical, ontological predicate for the existence of human selfhood, and self-other relations. This is not only because much has been written on the subject by scholars of different disciplinary persuasions, but also because this scholarship claims to be advancing, a peculiar point of view that originates a new way of looking at situati…
Sociology (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Yoruba (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · History (3 works)