Oduduwa's Chain

Name: Oduduwa's Chain
Brand: University of Chicago Press
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By Andrew Apter

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Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa's Chain, Andrew Apter explores a wide range of fascinating historical and ethnographic examples and offers a provocative rethinking of African heritage in Black Atlantic Studies.

Focusing on Yoruba history and culture in Nigeria, Apter applies a generative model of cultural revision that allows him to identify formative Yoruba influences without resorting to the idea that culture and tradition are fixed. For example, Apter shows how the association of African gods with Catholic saints can be seen as a strategy of empowerment, explores historical locations of Yoruba gender ideologies and their variations in the Atlantic world, and much more. He concludes with a rousing call for a return to Africa in studies of the Black Atlantic, resurrecting a critical notion of culture that allows us to transcend Western inventions of African while taking them into account.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

224

Release Date:

2017-11-29

Publication Date:

2017-11-29

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

022650641X

ISBN13:

9780226506418

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

295 g

Height:

152 cm

Width:

226 cm

Thickness:

15 cm

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