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...

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Main Author: Agwuele, Augustine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016
Springer International Publishing AG
Springer
Edition:1
Series:African Histories and Modernities
Subjects:
Africa-Politics and government
African Culture
African Politics
Cultural History
Dreadlocks
Hairstyles
HISTORY
History of Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN:3319301861, 9783319301860, 9783319301853, 3319301853
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Abstract 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 an d African American Yoruba practitioners.
AbstractList 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.
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 an d African American Yoruba practitioners.
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History of Sub-Saharan Africa
TableOfContents Intro -- Contents -- 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 Gourd -- Notes -- 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
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