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Apter, Andrew

 
9780226506418: Oduduwa's Chain: Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 022650641X ISBN 13 : 9780226506418
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Apter is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022650641X
ISBN 13 
9780226506418
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
216
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