| The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Agwuele, Augustine (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319301853 ISBN-13: 9783319301853 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - History | Social History - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306.09 |
| Series: African Histories and Modernities |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.19" W x 8.64" (0.86 lbs) 210 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |