ISBN:
9781920033323
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (140 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.896333
Keywords:
Yoruba (African people)-History
;
Yoruba (African people)-Social life and customs
;
Yoruba (African people)-History
;
Yoruba (African people)-Social life and customs
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Dedication -- About the Series -- Board Members -- Published in this series -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Fieldwork -- Some notes on the study area -- Epistemological challenges in developing this work -- Notes -- 1. Yoruba interconnections, colonial encounters, and epistemological crises -- Interconnections in the Yoruba epistemologies -- The dynamics of 'unequal encounters' -- Posthumous paternity, levirate and widow inheritance -- Between identity and identification -- Organisation of this book -- Notes -- 2. The fated grass: Self-representation and identity construction -- (Un)veiling the posthumous offspring -- Being 'born from another man's hands' -- Ethnographic vignettes: Posthumous offspring and self-presentation -- Picking up the pieces of a broken self -- Notes -- 3. Posthumous offspring and the politics of legitimacy -- Borders of legitimacy -- Legitimacy and the identity of power -- Posthumous paternity: Where the church stands -- Notes -- 4. Endogenous values, spatial delineation and cultural authenticity -- Posthumous paternity and Yoruba cultural authenticity -- Levirate or widow inheritance -- Revisiting the Yoruba concept of (il)legitimacy -- Notes -- 5. Neo-repugnancy: Assisted reproduction as an obscenity -- When innovation is negotiated -- Children made by doctors -- Two faces/phases of the repugnancy doctrine -- Help, donation, and making women pregnant -- 'ART' and the cultural construction of adultery -- Notes -- 6. Beyond 'epistemicide': (Re)claiming humanity for Africa -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.
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