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Mapping Yoruba networks : power and agency in the making of transnational communities / Kamari Maxine Clarke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yoruba (African people)--South Carolina--Oyotunji African Village--Migrations.
- Yoruba (African people).
- Yoruba (African people)--South Carolina--Oyotunji African Village--Ethnic identity.
- Yoruba (African people)--South Carolina--Oyotunji African Village--Rites and ceremonies.
- African Americans--South Carolina--Oyotunji African Village--Ethnic identity.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--South Carolina--Oyotunji African Village--Rites and ceremonies.
- Culture and tourism--South Carolina--Oyotunji African Village.
- Culture and tourism.
- Oyotunji African Village (S.C.)--History.
- Oyotunji African Village (S.C.).
- Oyotunji African Village (S.C.)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (383 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ethnographic study of life and ritual in an African American Yorùbá revivalist community in South Carolina and its complex relation to Nigerian Yorùbá identity.
- Contents:
- Introduction : from village, to nation, to transnational networks
- "On far away shores, home is not far" : mapping formations of place, race, and nation
- "White man say they are African" : roots tourism and the industry of race as culture
- Micropower and Oyo hegemony in Yoruba transnational revivalism
- "Many were taken, but some were sent" : the remembering and forgetting of Yoruba group membership
- Ritual change and the changing canon : divinatory legitimation of Yoruba ancestral roots
- Recasting gender : family, status, and legal institutionalism
- Epilogue : multisited ethnographies in an age of globalization.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064790
- 9781283064798
- 1283064790
- 9780822385417
- 0822385414
- OCLC:
- 652107996
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