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Unshared Identity : Posthumous paternity in a contemporary Yoruba community /
Unshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju-Ekiti, a Yoruba-speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning-making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present-day Nigeria were preyed upo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Colección: | African humanities series.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Yoruba interconnections, colonial encounters, and epistemological crises
- The fated grass : self-representation and identity construction
- Posthumous offspring and the politics of legitimacy
- Endogenous values, spatial delineation and cultural authenticity
- Neo-repugnancy : assisted reproduction as an obscenity
- Beyond 'epistemicide' : reclaiming humanity for Africa.