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Yoruba burial and funerary practice, the good death and the bad death, the ancestor as continuing presence, atunwa and rebirth, and how all of this actually works in Christian and Muslim Yoruba families today.

What incantation is as a genre, the theory of language it assumes, why naming and etymology carry force in it, and the tonal and word-play devices it depends on. A description and analysis, not a manual.