Title Mapping Yorùbá networks : power and agency in the making of transnational communities / Kamari Maxine Clarke

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 345 pages) : illustrations Series e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents Introduction : from village, to nation, to transnational networks -- "On far away shores, home is not far" : mapping formations of place, race, and nation -- "White man say they are African" : roots tourism and the industry of race as culture -- Micropower and Ọ̀yọ́ hegemony in Yorùbá transnational revivalism -- "Many were taken, but some were sent" : the remembering and forgetting of Yorùbá group membership -- Ritual change and the changing canon : divinatory legitimation of Yorùbá ancestral roots -- Recasting gender : family, status, and legal institutionalism -- Epilogue : multisited ethnographies in an age of globalization Summary Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Oyotunji African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the other the establishment of an ancient Yoruba Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles southwest of Charleston, Oyotunji is a Yoruba revivalist community founded in 1970. "Mapping Yoruba Networks" is an innovative ethnography of Oyotunji and a theoretically sophisticated exploration of how Yoruba Orisa voodoo religious practices are reworked as expressions of transnational racial politics. Drawing on several years of multi-sited fieldwork in the United States and Nigeria, Kamari Maxine Clarke describes Oyotunji in vivid detail - the physical space, government, rituals, language, and marriage and kinship practices - and explores how ideas of what constitutes the Yoruba past are constructed. She highlights the connections between contemporary Yoruba transatlantic religious networks and the post-1970s institutionalization of roots heritage in American social life. Examining how the development of a de-territorialized network of black cultural nationalists became aligned with a lucrative late-twentieth-century roots heritage market, Clarke explores the dynamics of Oyotunji Village's religious and tourist economy. She discusses how the community generates income through the sale of prophetic divinatory consultations, African market souvenirs - such as cloth, books, candles, and carvings - and fees for community-based tours and dining services. Clarke accompanied Oyotunji villagers to Nigeria, and she describes how these heritage travelers often returned home feeling that despite the separation of their ancestors from Africa as a result of transatlantic slavery, they - more than the Nigerian Yoruba - are the true claimants to the ancestral history of the Great Oyo Empire of the Yoruba people. "Mapping Yoruba Networks" is a unique look at the political economy of homeland identification and the transnational construction and legitimization of ideas such as authenticity, ancestry, blackness, and tradition Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-340) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Yoruba (African people) -- South Carolina -- Oyotunji African Village -- Migrations Yoruba (African people) -- South Carolina -- Oyotunji African Village -- Ethnic identity Yoruba (African people) -- South Carolina -- Oyotunji African Village -- Rites and ceremonies African Americans -- Race identity -- South Carolina -- Oyotunji African Village African Americans -- South Carolina -- Oyotunji African Village -- Rites and ceremonies Culture and tourism -- South Carolina -- Oyotunji African Village SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans -- Race identity African Americans -- Rites and ceremonies Culture and tourism Manners and customs Yoruba (African people) -- Ethnic identity Yoruba (African people) -- Migrations Yoruba (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies Diaspora. Joruba (volk) Etnisch bewustzijn. SUBJECT Oyotunji African Village (S.C.) -- History Oyotunji African Village (S.C.) -- Social life and customs Subject South Carolina -- Oyotunji African Village USA Yoruba. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822385417 0822385414 9790822333424 1283064790 9781283064798 9786613064790 6613064793

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