THE SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF VERBAL ARTS IN THE YORB INDIGENOUS HEALTHCARE PRACTICES
1.0 Introduction The paper focuses on the Yorb verbal arts used in indigenous healthcare system. By verbal arts, we mean the various literary genres used in reflecting and expressing the belief, religion, worldview and values of the society. Specifically, the verbal arts under study are the genres used among the Yorb people to manage their physical, mental and social well-being in pre and post colonial era. Before we go further in this paper, it is also important to give a brief definition of the term ‘ function’ . The word ‘function’ conveys to our mind a ‘special activity or purpose of a person or a phenomenon’. Macdonald (1980:526) refers to ‘function’ as the doing of a thing… activity appropriate to any person or thing, duty peculiar to any office. In this study, we regard function as a service rendered by a certain thing. Therefore, we shall attempt to discuss the functions of the verbal arts used in the Yorb indigenous healthcare delivery system. The Yorb verbal arts used in indigenous healthcare practices, as we observe, have various functions among the users. These functions are discussed at three different levels – communicative, aesthetic and ritual functions. By nature, some of these functions of the said verbal arts are therapeutic, because of their psychological relevancies. Therefore, their efficacious nature is discussed in this paper, so as to exhibit the power of the verbal arts among the Yorb.
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