Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities

Kamari Maxine Clarke

Published by Duke University Press 2004

Mapping Yorùbá Networks

Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities

Kamari Maxine Clarke

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385417

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About this book

Ethnographic study of life and ritual in an African American Yorùbá revivalist community in South Carolina and its complex relation to Nigerian Yorùbá identity.

Author / Editor information

Kamari Maxine Clarke is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale University.

Reviews

“In her pioneering analysis of the formation of a new religious nationalist movement, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows in fascinating detail how the Òyótúnjí community refashioned Yorùbá religion to suit its notion of racial identity.”—Jacob Olupona, editor of African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions

“In this highly original analysis, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows how the apparent stability of ‘tradition’ at different moments in time has been the product of processes of innovation made both necessary and possible during particular phases of economic limitation and religious and political oppression in the long historical stream of ‘black transatlantic’ cultural production.”—Brackette F. Williams, author of Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Note on Orthography Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface: Blurring Intersections among Racial, Cultural, and Religious Reproduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxi
Introduction: From Village, to Nation, to Transnational Networks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE. Vertical Formations of Institutions
1 ‘‘On Far Away Shores, Home Is Not Far’’: Mapping Formations of Place, Race, and Nation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
2 ‘‘White Man Say They Are African’’: Roots Tourism and the Industry of Race as Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
PART TWO. The Making of Transnational Networks
3 Micropower and Oyo Hegemony in Yorùbá Transnational Revivalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
4 ‘‘Many Were Taken, but Some Were Sent’’: The Remembering and Forgetting of Yorùbá Group Membership Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
5 Ritual Change and the Changing Canon: Divinatory Legitimation of Yorùbá Ancestral Roots Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
6 Recasting Gender: Family, Status, and Legal Institutionalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Epilogue: Multisited Ethnographies in an Age of Globalization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 382
Illustrations
- Other: 67 illustrations

eBook

Published: July 12, 2004
ISBN: 9780822385417