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Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People

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Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People

$124.99
$122.26
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This is a book on the social and cultural history of Yoruba people, a people in southwest Nigeria. As the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of Yoruba dress in historical perspective, this book is an important contribution to African history in general and the Yoruba cultural history in particular. The book illuminates the impact of Christianity, Islam, and British colonialism on the construction of Yoruba identity, and how dress was entangled in that construction. It also provides insightful discussions of the transformations in dress culture since independence and demonstrates the importance of dress as a site for contesting and articulating postcolonial Yoruba identity and class structure within the Nigerian national space. This book provides many insights into these issues and is thus an invaluable addition to Africana studies, anthropology, and history.


Author: Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
Publisher: Cambria Press
Publication Date: Sep 28, 2015
Number of Pages: 304 pages
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10: 1604978996
ISBN-13: 9781604978995
 

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