Yorùbá Art and Aesthetics: Methodologies and Their Consequences: edited by Barry Hallen, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 213 pp.
The text focuses on *Yorùbá Art and Aesthetics: Methodologies and Their Consequences*, a 2025 edited volume by Barry Hallen that examines Yorùbá art through Indigenous philosophical frameworks rather than Western paradigms. The book, comprising six chapters by multiple authors, emphasizes the insepa...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 513 - 516 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2026
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