ISBN:
9783319301860
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (IX, 210 p. 1 illus. in color)
Serie:
African Histories and Modernities
Serie:
Springer eBook Collection
Serie:
History
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Schlagwort(e):
History
;
Ethnology Africa
;
Africa, Sub-Saharan History
;
Civilization History
;
Africa Politics and government
;
History
;
Ethnology Africa
;
Africa, Sub-Saharan History
;
Civilization History
;
Africa Politics and government
;
Yoruba
;
Haartracht
;
Glaube
;
Symbolik
;
Abweichendes Verhalten
Kurzfassung:
This book offers an interpretation of Yoruba people’s affective responses to an adult Yoruba male with a ‘deviant’ hairstyle. The work, which views hairstyles as a form of symbolic communicative signal that encodes messages that are perceived and interpreted within a culture, provides an ontological and epistemological interpretation of Yoruba beliefs regarding dreadlocks with real-life illustrations of their treatment of an adult male with what they term irun were (insane person’s hairdo). Based on experiential observations as well as socio-cultural and linguistic analyses, the book explores the dynamism of Yoruba worldview regarding head-hair within contemporary belief systems and discusses some of the factors that assure its continuity. It concludes with a cross-cultural comparison of the perceptions of dreadlocks, especially between Nigerian Yoruba people and African American Yoruba practitioners
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-30186-0
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