• 비교문화연구
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• 제49권
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• pp.303-330
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• 2017

본 연구는 나이지리아 남서부에 위치한 일레이페($Il{\acute{e}}-If{\acute{e}}$, 혹은 이페$If{\acute{e}}$)를 중심으로 그 지역 고대 유물과 창조신화를 통해 현재 나이지리아 요루바족 예술문화 전통의 근원을 살펴보고, 문화의 상대성에 대해 상기해 보고자 하는 데 있다. 구전 전통에서 왕국 이제부, 오요, 베냉은 그 기원을 모두 일레이페지역에 두고 있고, 특히 오요와 이제부 왕국의 건립자는 일레이페의 통치자이며 요루바족의 신 오두두와(Oduduwa)의 아들들이라고 전해진다. 이처럼 당시 일레이페를 중심으로 세워진 왕국들은 같은 지역과 동일한 창조신이라는 공통분모를 통해 문화적, 종교적, 사회적으로 밀접하게 연결되어 있다. 요루바 문화를 이해하기 위해서 그들의 예술과 문화 전통의 근원인 일레이페에 대한 연구는 중요하다. 일레이페에 뿌리를 내린 요루바족은 자신들의 예술성을 태초부터 꾸준히 간직해 왔으며, 수세기 동안 그 형식과 형태를 그대로 유지시켜오면서 현재까지도 그들의 생활 속에서 활용하고 있기 때문이다. 그것의 증거들이 요루바족의 수많은 예술품들과 정신문화를 대표하는 문화유산인, 이파점술과 신화 등이다. 이파 점술은 요루바족의 신 '에슈'와 '이파'가 관련된 요루바족 풍습 가운데 하나로 지금까지 요루바족 사이에서 행해지고 있다. 만일 이러한 요루바족 전통 풍습을 비롯하여 아프리카의 문화와 문명이 비논리적이고 미신적이라고 여겨진다면, 그것은 태초의 것을 원형 그대로 유지시키고자 하는 그들의 노력을 다른 문화 차원의 기준에서 오도하는 것이다. 만일 그렇다면 타문화와 문명의 상대성과 그 문화와 문명을 판단하는 가치 기준의 다양성과 유연성의 필요를 재인식해야 할 것이다.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.7-30
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• 2023

Nigeria is a country with multiple ethnic groups; as a result, English language is used as a lingua franca to enhance information flow. Despite this, the Indigenous languages of communities are mostly used for interactions, even in university environments thereby affecting smooth interaction for those who do not understand them. This study therefore investigated the impact of being a linguistic outsider on information access, learning and social wellbeing of students. Descriptive research of a case study was used for this study. The population for this study consisted of non-Yoruba indigenous students. Judgmental sampling technique was used to select 50 non-indigenous students; structured interview was used. Results showed that Yoruba indigenous language was used lightly in the classroom and heavily outside the classroom, with mixtures of pidgin and English languages. It was found that being a linguistic outsider had a negative influence on information access. However it was not a total dependent factor to social wellbeing of students who desire for their various languages to be predominantly used and for them to enjoy equal benefits with Yoruba indigenes. This study also revealed that being a linguistic outsider does not have negative influence on academic learning. It was recommended that the stakeholders in university management promote the complete use of English language in the classroom while students should be encouraged to interpret Yoruba language when spoken in the midst of non-indigenes.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2008

The Korean HapMap Project has been carried out for the last 5 years since it started in June, 2003. The project generated data for a sum of 1,764,000 Korean SNPs and formally registered the data to the dbSNP of NCBI (The dbSNP website. 2008). We have developed a series of software programs for association studies as well as for the comparison and analysis of Korean HapMap data with four other populations (CEPH, Yoruba, Han Chinese, and Japanese populations). The KHapmap Browser was developed and integrated to provide haplotype retrieval and comparative study tools of human ethnicities for comprehensive disease association studies (http://www.khapmap.org). On that basis, GBrowse was adopted in the KHapmap Browser for inherent Korean genetic data, and a provision of extended services was pledged with the distributed sequence annotation system (DAS). The dynamic linking service of the KHapmap Browser to other tools in our intranetwork environment provides many enhanced functions over GBrowse without DAS. KHapmap Browser is expected to be an invaluable tool for the study of Korean and international Hapmap data.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.322-329
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• 2017

As a result of contemporary environmental concerns, a number of studies from plants' tissues as one of the alternatives to conventional chemicals are increasingly investigated. In tandem with these trends, Lagenaria breviflora (LB) fruit, reputed as antiviral and depilatory agents in the Yoruba folkloric medicine was examined on Vitex doniana wood to ascertain its antifungal activity. Fungicides of 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% LB fruits formulations (concentrations) were developed through simple one-step mechanical-forming process, including control. In this study, the yield, the chemical compositions, the absorption capacity of the fungicides and wood weight losses (WWL) analysis were evaluated to investigate the antifungal activity of LB fruit on wood. The fruit extract yielded 35.4% of fresh juice weight. LB fruits contained total: alkaloids ($8.78{\pm}0.21mg/mL$), flavonoids ($2.01{\pm}0.02mg/mL$), phenol ($7.42{\pm}0.09mg/mL$), saponins ($11.00{\pm}0.10mg/mL$) and tannins ($5.47{\pm}0.05mg/mL$) contents. All the formulations provided effective protection against the tested wood fungi compared to control. Interestingly, the antifungal activity of 50% and 25% formulations of 6.8% WWL and 9.9% WWL satisfied the excellent fungal resistance class description against white rot fungus (Ganoderma lucidum) and brown rot fungus (Fibroporia vaillantii), respectively according to ASTM D 2017. These results thus, support LB fruit as a strong potential source of natural antifungals for industrial wood production.