The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland.

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.

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