Olatunde B Lawuyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olatunde B Lawuyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olatunde B |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawuyi |
| SIGNATURE | LAWUYI O B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ladoke Akintola University of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Acts of Persecution in the Name of Tradition in Contemporary South Africa
The political economy of video marketing in Ogbomọṣọ, Nigeria
This article examines the character of Yoruba video viewers, the style of marketing and the politics of choice in Ogbomọṣọ, a Nigerian town on the northern fringe of Ọyọ State. As an itinerant trading community Ogbomọṣọ is a place where production is not the source of wealth; instead, big wealth is always repatriated from outside, raising a doubt, stemming from its largely invisible productive base, about human ability and achievements. The vocat…
Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion
Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency
Towards an Anthropological Agenda in Africa: Social Relativism and Beyond
The Obatala Factor in Yoruba History
History records it that Obatala was the ruler of the indigenous peoples of southwestern Nigeria when they were conquered by Oduduwa. The exact date of the encounter remains problematic, owing largely to the nature of the source of information, oral tradition. At one level of interpretation, therefore, Obatala myths represent the struggle for the domination of the autochthonous groups, but there is another dimension. Although Oduduwa's image and a…
Is Tortoise a trickster
The Good Things in Life. A Study of the Traditional Religious Culture of the Yoruba People
Towards an African Sociological Tradition: A Rejoinder to Akiwowo and Makinde
Akiwowo (1986b) and Makinde (1988) raise several issues on the possibility of an African sociological tradition. They argue that sociology can be done in African idioms and they supply us with some concepts, principally those of 'asuwada', 'ajobi', 'ajogbe' and ' ifogbontayese', with which we can begin to work out indigenous sociological theories. In this paper, we accept that it is possible to do sociology in African idioms. But we must specify …
Parking Sign and Solidarity within Religious Groups: Social Identity Constructions in Nigeria
This study offers an interpretation of driving signs used in interpersonal communication. Questionnaires were administered in a university setting to faculty members to assess the manner in which 'parking' is used. Religious affiliations of the respondents are related to social identities, and the results suggest that religion serves as a direct influence on motorists who park off the road to communicate with other drivers. The findings further s…
The Story About Life: Biography in the Yoruba Obituaries
What we intend to do here is to present the obituary as a simple story in which an individual's life makes sense in terms of cultural assumptions on values, on meaningful relations, and achievements. The brevity of the story we consider is made so by the relative dearth of information which an obituary contains. But, in spite of the scarcity of information, the story still reveals a clear orientation: the obituary has meaning only in the context …
Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change Among the Yoruba. David D. Laitin
Metaphoric Associations and the Conception of Death: Analysis of a Yoruba World View
METAPHORIC ASSOCIATIONS AND THE CONCEPTION OF DEATH: ANALYSIS OF A YORUBA WORLD VIEW BY OLATUNDE B. LAWUYI AND J. K. OLUPONA (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria) In studying the Yoruba conception of death, we have come to view scholarship as requiring more than the mere collection of rituals, proverbs and myths, the more so since collected Yoruba beliefs about death indicate that binary oppositions are an essential component of their st…
Towards an African Sociological Tradition: A Rejoinder to Akiwowo and Makinde
Akiwowo (1986b) and Makinde (1988) raise several issues on the possibility of an African sociological tradition. They argue that sociology can be done in African idioms and they supply us with some concepts, principally those of 'asuwada', 'ajobi', 'ajogbe' and ' ifogbontayese', with which we can begin to work out indigenous sociological theories. In this paper, we accept that it is possible to do sociology in African idioms. But we must specify …
The political economy of video marketing in Ogbomọṣọ, Nigeria
This article examines the character of Yoruba video viewers, the style of marketing and the politics of choice in Ogbomọṣọ, a Nigerian town on the northern fringe of Ọyọ State. As an itinerant trading community Ogbomọṣọ is a place where production is not the source of wealth; instead, big wealth is always repatriated from outside, raising a doubt, stemming from its largely invisible productive base, about human ability and achievements. The vocat…
The Story About Life: Biography in the Yoruba Obituaries
What we intend to do here is to present the obituary as a simple story in which an individual's life makes sense in terms of cultural assumptions on values, on meaningful relations, and achievements. The brevity of the story we consider is made so by the relative dearth of information which an obituary contains. But, in spite of the scarcity of information, the story still reveals a clear orientation: the obituary has meaning only in the context …
Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency
The Obatala Factor in Yoruba History
History records it that Obatala was the ruler of the indigenous peoples of southwestern Nigeria when they were conquered by Oduduwa. The exact date of the encounter remains problematic, owing largely to the nature of the source of information, oral tradition. At one level of interpretation, therefore, Obatala myths represent the struggle for the domination of the autochthonous groups, but there is another dimension. Although Oduduwa's image and a…
Metaphoric Associations and the Conception of Death: Analysis of a Yoruba World View
METAPHORIC ASSOCIATIONS AND THE CONCEPTION OF DEATH: ANALYSIS OF A YORUBA WORLD VIEW BY OLATUNDE B. LAWUYI AND J. K. OLUPONA (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria) In studying the Yoruba conception of death, we have come to view scholarship as requiring more than the mere collection of rituals, proverbs and myths, the more so since collected Yoruba beliefs about death indicate that binary oppositions are an essential component of their st…
Metaphoric Associations and the Conception of Death: Analysis of a Yoruba World View
METAPHORIC ASSOCIATIONS AND THE CONCEPTION OF DEATH: ANALYSIS OF A YORUBA WORLD VIEW BY OLATUNDE B. LAWUYI AND J. K. OLUPONA (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria) In studying the Yoruba conception of death, we have come to view scholarship as requiring more than the mere collection of rituals, proverbs and myths, the more so since collected Yoruba beliefs about death indicate that binary oppositions are an essential component of their st…
Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change Among the Yoruba. David D. Laitin
The Story About Life: Biography in the Yoruba Obituaries
What we intend to do here is to present the obituary as a simple story in which an individual's life makes sense in terms of cultural assumptions on values, on meaningful relations, and achievements. The brevity of the story we consider is made so by the relative dearth of information which an obituary contains. But, in spite of the scarcity of information, the story still reveals a clear orientation: the obituary has meaning only in the context …
Is Tortoise a trickster
The Good Things in Life. A Study of the Traditional Religious Culture of the Yoruba People
Towards an African Sociological Tradition: A Rejoinder to Akiwowo and Makinde
Akiwowo (1986b) and Makinde (1988) raise several issues on the possibility of an African sociological tradition. They argue that sociology can be done in African idioms and they supply us with some concepts, principally those of 'asuwada', 'ajobi', 'ajogbe' and ' ifogbontayese', with which we can begin to work out indigenous sociological theories. In this paper, we accept that it is possible to do sociology in African idioms. But we must specify …
Parking Sign and Solidarity within Religious Groups: Social Identity Constructions in Nigeria
This study offers an interpretation of driving signs used in interpersonal communication. Questionnaires were administered in a university setting to faculty members to assess the manner in which 'parking' is used. Religious affiliations of the respondents are related to social identities, and the results suggest that religion serves as a direct influence on motorists who park off the road to communicate with other drivers. The findings further s…
Towards an Anthropological Agenda in Africa: Social Relativism and Beyond
The Obatala Factor in Yoruba History
History records it that Obatala was the ruler of the indigenous peoples of southwestern Nigeria when they were conquered by Oduduwa. The exact date of the encounter remains problematic, owing largely to the nature of the source of information, oral tradition. At one level of interpretation, therefore, Obatala myths represent the struggle for the domination of the autochthonous groups, but there is another dimension. Although Oduduwa's image and a…
Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency
Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion
Acts of Persecution in the Name of Tradition in Contemporary South Africa
The political economy of video marketing in Ogbomọṣọ, Nigeria
This article examines the character of Yoruba video viewers, the style of marketing and the politics of choice in Ogbomọṣọ, a Nigerian town on the northern fringe of Ọyọ State. As an itinerant trading community Ogbomọṣọ is a place where production is not the source of wealth; instead, big wealth is always repatriated from outside, raising a doubt, stemming from its largely invisible productive base, about human ability and achievements. The vocat…
Linguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Yoruba (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works)