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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.Details
| Verlag | Springer International Publishing |
| Ersterscheinung | 22. April 2018 |
| Maße | 21 cm x 14.8 cm |
| Gewicht | 291 Gramm |
| Format | Softcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9783319807430 |
| Auflage | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 |
| Seiten | 210 |
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