| Summary: | 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 inseparability of Yorùbá art from morality, language, spirituality, and social life, critiquing Eurocentric misinterpretations that label Yorùbá art as "primitive." It highlights Yorùbá aesthetic criteria grounded in community values, ritual significance, and metaphysical concepts such as ìwà (inner essence) and oríkì (verbal-visual invocations). The volume advocates for culturally grounded methodologies and deep cultural engagement to authentically interpret Yorùbá art’s ethical, epistemological, and cosmological dimensions.
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