THE SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF VERBAL ARTS IN THE YORB INDIGENOUS HEALTHCARE PRACTICES
5.0. Conclusion From the fore-going, it can be seen from the above that, at the level of the social functions, members of the Yorb society are the users of the verbal arts under study. They include the knowledgeable elders, both male and female in their capacity as fathers, mothers, heads of the families, heads of the communities, priests, artistes, etc. The health-related genres are in the society to address situations when someone, a member of the society is sick, when performing general greetings at meetings, during other ritual performances in the community, and when the mothers are caring for the babies in case of lullabies. It shows how some of the verbal arts are relevant to both orthodox and indigenous healthcare delivery system. In African Literature and art, the aesthetic function and other utilitarian functions are inseparable. The issue of art for art’s sake as in Western formalist and new criticisms, structuralism, etc. is not applicable. Therefore, it could be assumed by the Africans that the Western healthcare delivery system is regarded as complementary to the indigenous system of healing. Endnotes 1. The message depends on the wish of the chanter. 2. It is a tradition among the Yoruba that each child should buy cloth to cover the corpse of his or her parents. This is how to give a befitting burial to a departed soul. 3. Je ? ge ? de ? has no specific meaning, it is a pun. 4. The work of gndj (1997) on the communicative and semiotic contexts of rok among the Yorb also corroborates this idea regarding the communicative function of the Yorb verbal arts. Also see the work of Jacobson (1966) on poetic functions.Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [13] 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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