| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 514 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
African identities: past and present |
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African identities: past and present.
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| Contents |
Prologue: My archive -- Autoethnography and epistemic liberation -- Narrative politics and cultural ideologies -- Memory, magic, myth, and metaphor -- A poetological narration of the nation -- A poetological narration of the self -- Satire and society -- Narrative politics and the politics of narrative -- Sculpture as archive -- Textiles as texts -- Canvas and archiving ethnic reality -- Hair art and the women agency -- Photography and ethnography -- Self, collective, and collection |
| Summary |
Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the 'Self' and Yoruba Being (the individual and the collective) in the context of the African decolonial project, Falola strips away Eurocentric influences and interruptions from African epistemology. Avoiding colonial archival sources, it grounds itself in alternative archives created by memory, spoken words, images and photographs to look at the themes of politics, culture, nation, ethnicity, satire, poetics, magic, myth, metaphor, sculpture, textiles, hair and gender. Vividly illustrated in colour, it uses diverse and novel methods to access an African way of knowing. Exploring the different ways that a society understands and presents itself, this book highlights convergence, enmeshing private and public data to provide a comprehensive understanding of society, public consciousness, and cultural identity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 01, 2022) |
| Subject |
Yoruba (African people) -- Material culture
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Yoruba (African people) -- Archives
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Yoruba (African people) -- Historiography
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Material culture -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Ethnology -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Authorship
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Decolonization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Decolonization.
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Ethnology -- Authorship.
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Historiography.
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Material culture.
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Yoruba (African people) -- Historiography.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Sub-Saharan Africa.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021058072 |
| ISBN |
9781009049634 |
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1009049631 |
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