Ethnographic study of life and ritual in an African American Yoruba revivalist community in South Carolina and its complex relation to Nigerian Yoruba identity.
Ethnographic study of life and ritual in an African American Yoruba revivalist community in South Carolina and its complex relation to Nigerian Yoruba identity.
Note on Orthography ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxix Introduction: From Village, to Nation, to Transnational Networks 1 PART ONE. VERTICAL FORMATIONS OF INSTITUTIONS 1 “On Far Away Shores, Home Is Not Far”: Mapping Formations of Place, Race, and Nation 51 2 “White Man Say They Are African”: Roots Tourism and the Industry of Race as Culture 107 PART TWO. THE MAKING OF TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS 3 Micropower and Oyo Hegemony in Yoruba Transnational Revivalism 157 4 “Many Were Taken, but Some Were Sent”: The Remembering and Forgetting of Yoruba Group Membership 201 5 Ritual Change and the Changing Canon: Divinatory Legitimation of Yoruba Ancestral Roots 231 6 Recasting Gender: Family, Status, and Legal Institutionalism 257 Epilogue: Multisited Ethnographies in an Age of Globalization 279 Appendix 289 Notes 295 Glossary 317 Bibliography 323 Index 341
Note on Orthography ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxix Introduction: From Village, to Nation, to Transnational Networks 1 PART ONE. VERTICAL FORMATIONS OF INSTITUTIONS 1 “On Far Away Shores, Home Is Not Far”: Mapping Formations of Place, Race, and Nation 51 2 “White Man Say They Are African”: Roots Tourism and the Industry of Race as Culture 107 PART TWO. THE MAKING OF TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS 3 Micropower and Oyo Hegemony in Yoruba Transnational Revivalism 157 4 “Many Were Taken, but Some Were Sent”: The Remembering and Forgetting of Yoruba Group Membership 201 5 Ritual Change and the Changing Canon: Divinatory Legitimation of Yoruba Ancestral Roots 231 6 Recasting Gender: Family, Status, and Legal Institutionalism 257 Epilogue: Multisited Ethnographies in an Age of Globalization 279 Appendix 289 Notes 295 Glossary 317 Bibliography 323 Index 341
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