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The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland 1st Edition by Augustine Agwuele 3319301860 9783319301860

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Author(s): Augustine Agwuele (auth.)

ISBN(s): 9783319301853, 9783319301860, 3319301853, 3319301861

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 2.19 MB

Year: 2016

Language: English

SKU: EB-5605278 Categories: Politics & Philosophy, Society Tag: Augustine Agwuele (auth.)

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ISBN 10: 3319301860

ISBN 13: 9783319301860

Author: Augustine Agwuele

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.

The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. Trivial Behaviors as Valuable Data
3. The Yoruba Universe
4. Diachronic Study of Yoruba Hairstyles
5. The Underpinning of the Yoruba View of Hairstyle
6. Dynamics of Culture and Visual Profiling
7. Conclusion

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