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.
d African American Yoruba practitioners.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783319807430
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-319-80743-0
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Erscheinungstermin: 22.04.2018
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
- Serie: African Histories and Modernities
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 2903 g
- Seiten: 210
- Format (B x H x T): 148 x 210 x 13 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt