By Augustine Agwuele
ISBN-10: 3319301853
ISBN-13: 9783319301853
This ebook deals an interpretation of Yoruba people’s affective responses to an grownup Yoruba male with a ‘deviant’ coiffure. The paintings, which perspectives hairstyles as a sort of symbolic communicative sign that encodes messages which are perceived and interpreted inside of a tradition, presents an ontological and epistemological interpretation of Yoruba ideals concerning dreadlocks with real-life illustrations in their therapy of an grownup male with what they time period irun were (insane person’s hairdo). according to experiential observations in addition to socio-cultural and linguistic analyses, the booklet explores the dynamism of Yoruba worldview concerning head-hair inside modern trust structures and discusses a number of the elements that guarantee its continuity. It concludes with a cross-cultural comparability of the perceptions of dreadlocks, specially among Nigerian Yoruba humans an
d African American Yoruba practitioners.
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