Title: Gẹlẹdẹ : art and female power among the Yoruba /
Authors: Drewal, Henry John.; Drewal, Margaret Thompson.
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Women, Yoruba.; Yoruba (African people) Religion.; Yoruba (African people) Rites and ceremonies.; Gelede (Yoruba rite); Masks, Yoruba.; Folk dancing, Yoruba.; Women, Yoruba Rites and ceremonies.; Yoruba (African people) Social life and customs.
Contents: 1. Yoruba spectacle -- 2. Gẹlẹdẹ performance -- 3. Ẹfẹ songs-voicing power -- 4. The masks and costumes of Ẹfẹ night -- 5. The dance : texturing time and space -- 6. The masks of Gẹlẹdẹ -- 7. A historical and thematic overview -- 8. Gẹlẹdẹ and the individual.