The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland / by Augustine Agwuele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agwuele, Augustine., Author.

Series:

African Histories and Modernities, 2634-5781

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa, Sub-Saharan--History.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Ethnology--Africa.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Africa--Politics and government.

Africa.

History of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Cultural History.

African Culture.

African Politics.

Local Subjects:

History of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Cultural History.

African Culture.

African Politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 210 p. 1 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

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 Afr ican American Yoruba practitioners.

Contents:

.Introduction

Chapter 1 Trivial behaviors as valuable data Trivial Research Scope and Content

.Chapter 2 The Yoruba Universe The Yoruba World The economic order of the 17th century was primary around enslavement Yoruba Filiality

.Chapter 3 Diachronic Study of Yoruba Hairstyles At the Scripture Union House in Ibadan Traditional Styles Dada Personal Styles and Identity

.Chapter 4 The Underpinning of The Yoruba view of hairstyle Yoruba Traditional Religion: Ori The good life and Ori Ori and Receive Confessions Culture of Fear Old Wine, New Gourd

.Chapter 5 Dynamics of culture and visual profiling Synchronic Yoruba Body Image and Perception of Hairstyles Contemporary Popular Perceptions Adaptive Practices: Elite Athletes and Artists Iyalorisha and the Pastor: A case of two Yoruba Other Perspectives: African American and Natural Hairstyles

.Conclusion. .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319301860

3319301861