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Mapping Yorùbá networks : power and agency in the making of transnational communities /

Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Oyotunji African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the other the establishment of an ancient Yoruba Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles southwest of Charleston, Oyotunji...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Ọ̀yọ́ hegemony in Yorùbá transnational revivalism
  • "Many were taken, but some were sent" : the remembering and forgetting of Yorùbá group membership
  • Ritual change and the changing canon : divinatory legitimation of Yorùbá ancestral roots
  • Recasting gender : family, status, and legal institutionalism
  • Epilogue : multisited ethnographies in an age of globalization.