Historia
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The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland
Augustine Agwuele
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This book offers an interpretation of Yoruba peoples 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 persons 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.
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9783319807430
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 210
- Utgivningsdatum: 2018-04-22
- Förlag: Springer International Publishing AG