书目名称 | The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland |
编辑 | Augustine Agwuele |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/921/920884/920884.mp4 |
概述 | Provides the first cultural analysis of Yoruba hairstyle as a vehicle for political and religious expression in African communities.Explores cosmetic appearance in gendered terms, focusing primarily o |
丛书名称 | African Histories and Modernities |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | .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.. |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Yoruba men; Yoruba politics and culture; hairstyles and political movements; Cosmetology and religion; o |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30186-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-80743-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-30186-0Series ISSN 2634-5773 Series E-ISSN 2634-5781 |
issn_series | 2634-5773 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 |