Among the Yoruba of Western Nigeria and Dahomey the Gelede cult honours the earth spirits, the ancestors and especially the Great Mother. The festival filmed here emphasises the status of women and placated their potentially dangerous mystic powers. The commentary emphasises that the annual Gelede festival serves a cathartic role by paying respect to women in a patriarchal society. During the course of the festival social tensions are brought out into the open and ridiculed; antagonism between the sexes is thus controlled and given a legitimate outlet. The film shows the preparation of masks and the climax of the festival in which the Great Mask appears at midnight. On the following day the lesser masks entertain, satirising the movements of women.
"Among the Yoruba of Western Nigeria and Dahomey the Gelede cult honours the earth spirits, the ancestors and especially the Great Mother. The festival filmed here emphasises the status of women and placated their potentially dangerous mystic powers. The commentary emphasises that the annual Gelede festival serves a cathartic role by paying respect to women in a patriarchal society. During the course of the festival social tensions are brought out into the open and ridiculed; antagonism between the sexes is thus controlled and given a legitimate outlet. The film shows the preparation of masks and the climax of the festival in which the Great Mask appears at midnight. On the following day the lesser masks entertain, satirising the movements of women."@en
"Discusses the Gèlèdé society of Southwest Yorubaland in Nigeria and the annual Gèlèdé festival. Describes this three day event, shows the making of the symbolic masks, and illustrates the movements in the ritual dances. Emphasizes the symbolism inherent in the ceremonies."@en
"Discusses the Gèlèdé society of Southwest Yorubaland in Nigeria and the annual Gèlèdé festival. Describes this three day event, shows the making of the symbolic masks, and illustrates the movements in the ritual dances. Emphasizes the symbolism inherent in the ceremonies."
"Discusses the gelede society of Southwest Yorubaland in Nigeria and the annual gelede festival. Describes this three day event, shows the making of the symbolic masks, and illustrates the movements in the ritual dances. Emphasizes the symbolism inherent in the ceremonies."@en
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland,
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