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The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing,
2016.
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| Colección: | African histories and modernities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Notes; Chapter 2: Trivial Behaviors as Valuable Data; Trivial Research; Scope and Context; Notes; Chapter 3: The Yoruba Universe; The Yoruba World; The Economic Order of the Seventeenth Century; Yoruba Filiality; Notes; Chapter 4: Diachronic Study of Yoruba Hairstyles; At the Scripture Union House in Ibadan; Traditional Styles; Dada; Personal Styles and Identity; Notes; Chapter 5: The Underpinning of the Yoruba View of Hairstyle; Yoruba Traditional Religion: Ori; The Good Life and Ori; Ori and Received Confessions; Culture of fear.
- Old Wine, New GourdNotes; Chapter 6: Dynamics of Culture and Visual Profiling; Synchronic Yoruba Body Image and Perception of Hairstyles; Contemporary Popular Perceptions; Adaptive Practices: Elite Athletes and Artists; Iyalorisa and the Pastor: A Case of Two Yoruba; Other Perspectives: African American and Natural Hairstyles; Notes; Chapter 7: Conclusion; Note; Bibliography; Newspapers a˘nd magazines; Films; Index