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The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30186-0

ISBN: 978-3-319-30185-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 14, 2016

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Introduction

Agwuele, Augustine

Pages: 1 –9

[This book explains and describes popular actions and thoughts of Yoruba people. When dealing with human behavior, making abstract generalizations about the motivation for action, as done within laboratory-based studies, evinces certain limitations. As a result, anthropological studies proffer...
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Trivial Behaviors as Valuable Data

Agwuele, Augustine

Pages: 11 –38

[I cannot now visualize myself without my dreadlocks. My hairstyle has become a significant defining feature of me, earning me in some quarters the name Rasta. At Shashamane, Ethiopia, and in Trinidad, I received Rastafarian greetings from practicing Rastafarians. On each occasion, I was...
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The Yoruba Universe

Agwuele, Augustine

Pages: 39 –60

[It is easy to observe that neither an appeal to reason nor a rationalized factual exegesis will explain his reaction or dissuade the displayed customary response.]
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Diachronic Study of Yoruba Hairstyles

Agwuele, Augustine

Pages: 61 –94

[To recapitulate, the method that I have adopted to analyze what I have been calling trivial data, in the visual perception of a person with either dreadlocks or cornrow, has been to make associations by aligning events and pointing to commonality in the narratives. This procedure defines the...
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The Underpinning of the Yoruba View of Hairstyle

Agwuele, Augustine

Pages: 95 –150

[It is important to reiterate that the discussion of this book is mainly centered on the everyday lives of the Yoruba people. It is concerned with the way in which their views of a matured male Yoruba person with cornrows and dreadlocks hairstyles, though mere hairstyles, are revealed in casual...
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Dynamics of Culture and Visual Profiling

Agwuele, Augustine

Pages: 151 –187

[According to Goodenough, “It is the forms of things that people have in mind, their models for perceiving, relating and otherwise interpreting them.” This work has been primarily focused on the description and explanation of Yoruba thought processes, specifically focusing on their long-sustained...
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Conclusion

Agwuele, Augustine

Pages: 189 –194

[From a semiotic standpoint, there are certain things to consider when reflecting on the relationship between sign and representation. Intrinsically, the subject is that of cognition, the individual or agent, and the social, the communal (which ultimately implicates the nature of knowledge), and...

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