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The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
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The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Series: African Histories and Modernities
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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.
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