Agwuele, Augustine. <br/><br/>
The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (218 pages) 
 - African Histories and Modernities Series .
 - African Histories and Modernities Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Trivial Behaviors as Valuable Data -- Trivial Research -- Scope and Context -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Yoruba Universe -- The Yoruba World -- The Economic Order of the Seventeenth Century -- Yoruba Filiality -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Diachronic Study of Yoruba Hairstyles -- At the Scripture Union House in Ibadan -- Traditional Styles -- Dada -- Personal Styles and Identity -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Underpinning of the Yoruba View of Hairstyle -- Yoruba Traditional Religion: Ori -- The Good Life and Ori -- Ori and Received Confessions -- Culture of fear -- Old Wine, New Gourd -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Dynamics of Culture and Visual Profiling -- Synchronic Yoruba Body Image and Perception of Hairstyles -- Contemporary Popular Perceptions -- Adaptive Practices: Elite Athletes and Artists -- Iyalorisa and the Pastor: A Case of Two Yoruba -- Other Perspectives: African American and Natural Hairstyles -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Newspapers a˘nd magazines -- Films -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783319301860 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Africa-Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DT348-363.3 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>391.509669