Cultural Heritage and Change in Yorubaland, Southwestern Nigeria
| dc.contributor.author | Elugbaju, Ayowole S. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-08-20T08:21:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-08-20T08:21:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract-translated | As the centrum of numerous gods in the Yoruba pantheon and, consequently, the epicentre of Yoruba Traditional Religion, religio-cultural practices such as rituals, festivals, and processions are regarded as components of sociocultural practices prevalent in Ile-Ife. These native practices serve as agencies through which humans articulate interactions with and elicit the participation of the otherworldly in earthly affairs. Nonetheless, the interaction between the physical and ethereal in the Ife native practices are intersected by components of cultural heritage such as groves, shrines, holy waterbodies, effigies, and processional routes which, for the religious and historical purposes they serve, are sacred. In the past, human activities and encounters with these cultural heritage components were regulated by the sacerdotal nature ascribed to them. However, in recent decades, modernisation, population growth, religious change, and urbanisation, among others, have spurred environmental changes that have had enduring consequences, some of which have permanently altered the existence of these elements of cultural heritage. Exploring primary and secondary sources, especially orality, archival sources, and literature, this study examined the impacts of environmental changes on the cultural heritage of Ile-Ife. This study established, inter alia, that modernisation impacted the landscape of Ile-Ife in such a way that cultural heritage sites have been eroded due to natural resource exploitation and the appropriation for the construction of modern buildings. This paper concludes that despite the far-reaching impacts of environmental changes, there are ongoing attempts to preserve the cultural heritage sites in Ile-Ife. | en |
| dc.format | 22 s. | cs |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1804-5480 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11025/62689 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Západočeská univerzita v Plzni | cs |
| dc.rights | © Západočeská univerzita v Plzni | cs |
| dc.rights.access | openAccess | en |
| dc.subject | změna životního prostředí | cs |
| dc.subject | kulturní dědictví | cs |
| dc.subject | náboženská změna | cs |
| dc.subject | Ile-Ife | cs |
| dc.subject | posvátná místa | cs |
| dc.subject.translated | environmental change | en |
| dc.subject.translated | cultural heritage | en |
| dc.subject.translated | religious change | en |
| dc.subject.translated | Ile-Ife | en |
| dc.subject.translated | sacred sites | en |
| dc.title | Cultural Heritage and Change in Yorubaland, Southwestern Nigeria | en |
| dc.type | článek | cs |
| dc.type | article | en |
| dc.type.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |
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