ISBN:
9783319301853
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (218 p)
Series Statement:
African Histories and Modernities
Parallel Title:
Print version Agwuele, Augustine The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland
DDC:
900
Keywords:
Africa-Politics and government
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Trivial Behaviors as Valuable Data -- Trivial Research -- Scope and Context -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Yoruba Universe -- The Yoruba World -- The Economic Order of the Seventeenth Century -- Yoruba Filiality -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Diachronic Study of Yoruba Hairstyles -- At the Scripture Union House in Ibadan -- Traditional Styles -- Dada -- Personal Styles and Identity -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Underpinning of the Yoruba View of Hairstyle -- Yoruba Traditional Religion: Ori -- The Good Life and Ori
Abstract:
Ori and Received Confessions -- Culture of fear -- Old Wine, New Gourd -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Dynamics of Culture and Visual Profiling -- Synchronic Yoruba Body Image and Perception of Hairstyles -- Contemporary Popular Perceptions -- Adaptive Practices: Elite Athletes and Artists -- Iyalorisa and the Pastor: A Case of Two Yoruba -- Other Perspectives: African American and Natural Hairstyles -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Newspapers a˘nd magazines -- Films -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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