![]() In the case of the Yoruba of West Africa, mainly Nigeria, one is faced with a complexity not only of religious life, but also with diversity of this complexity and matters easily seem to be contradictory if one goes from one village to another, one diviner to another. ![]() To translate a culture into a language that are true both to the culture in question and to those who will be the readers of the ethnography are a difficult task and the complexity of one study creates difficulties in the process of selecting material and also avoiding making judgments based upon an unseen drive within the researcher to understand the culture in question of premises known from his own background. Seeking to understand a culture on its own premises for a man not naturally a part of the culture in question, by upbringing and cultural relation, can present problems in the translation of the culture.
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