The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland Paperback / softback
by Augustine Agwuele
Part of the African Histories and Modernities series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:210 pages, 1 Illustrations, color; IX, 210 p. 1 illus. in color.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:22/04/2018
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- ISBN:9783319807430
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:210 pages, 1 Illustrations, color; IX, 210 p. 1 illus. in color.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:22/04/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319807430