Yakurr

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• Assessing Yakurr culture's intricacy and complexity requires no more intellectual preparation than comprehension of any other highly complex work of art.

  Academic text (2008)

• To truly appreciate Yakurr heritage, one should participate in their communal festivals.

• I expose Yakurr culture to you, so it too can be on television and everyone can see.

  Academic text (2008)

• Much of the general Yakurr population concurs with this outlook.

  Academic text (2008)

• Yakurr performers, rather than aiming to invent new forms, concentrate their effort on display.

  Academic text (2008)

• Yakurr people place a premium on equality, cooperation, and generosity, and therein lies their plea to a global audience.

  Academic text (2008)

• Concurrently, ordinary Yakurr citizens conduct private rites at the tombs of their female ancestors.

  Academic text (2008)

• Ekpakeke thus serves as an example of a rite that reinforces Yakurr identity through the reenactment of local history.

  Academic text (2008)

• As the traditional rulers of Yakurr society, they are charged to uphold customary law within the framework of Nigeria's federal constitution.

  Academic text (2008)

• Twenty-three priest-chiefs (bina, sg. ina), who constitute the council of elders (yabol), are the principal custodians of Yakurr culture and are its ritual actors.

  Academic text (2008)

Surface Forms

Etymology