Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called aale to protect their properties-farms, gardens, market goods, piles of collected firewood-from the ravages of thieves and Vigilant Things argues that aale are keys to understanding how images function in Yoruba social and cultural life.
University Of Washington Press Vigilant things. on thieves, yoruba anti-aesthetics, and the strange fates of ordinary objects in nigeria, hardback/david todd doris
