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The symbolism and communicative contents of dreadlocks in Yorubaland

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The symbolism and communicative contents of dreadlocks in Yorubaland/ by Augustine Agwuele.
Author:	Agwuele, Augustine.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2016.,
Description:	ix, 210 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Dreadlocks - Social aspects - Nigeria, Southwest. -
Subject:	Nigeria, Southwest - Social life and customs. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30186-0
ISBN:	9783319301860

The symbolism and communicative contents of dreadlocks in Yorubaland
Agwuele, Augustine.

The symbolism and communicative contents of dreadlocks in Yorubaland[electronic resource] /by Augustine Agwuele. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2016. - ix, 210 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - African histories and modernities. - African histories and modernities..

.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.

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.

ISBN: 9783319301860

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-30186-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Dreadlocks
--Social aspects--Nigeria, Southwest.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

1112668
Nigeria, Southwest
--Social life and customs.

LC Class. No.: GT2295.N6 / A39 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 391.509669

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