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Cloth That Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bùnú Social Life

copied description: "Cloth only wears, it does not die," the paradoxical phrase from a Bunu Yoruba prayer, emphasizes the power of cloth as a symbol of continuing social relations and identities in the face of uncertainty and death. The Bunu Yoruba people of central Nigeria mark every critical juncture in an individual's life, from birthing ceremonies to funeral celebrations, with handwoven cloth. Anthropologist Elisha Renne explains how and why this is so and discusses why handwoven cloth is still valued although it is rarely woven in Bunu villages today. Special marriage cloths mark changes …

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Source	Internet Archive
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	Elisha P. Renne
Date	1995-11-01
Type	texts
Details	ia subject
Found at	https://archive.org/details/cloth-that-does-not-die
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Record ID	`internet-archive:cloth-that-does-not-die`

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Cloth That Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bùnú Social Life. Internet Archive, 1995. Vero Archive, record internet-archive:cloth-that-does-not-die.