{"product_id":"mapping-yoruba-networks-9780822333302","title":"Mapping Yorùbá Networks","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthnographic study of life and ritual in an African American Yoruba revivalist community and its complex relation to Nigerian Yoruba identity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In her pioneering analysis of the formation of a new religious nationalist movement, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows in fascinating detail how the Òyótúnjí community refashioned Yorùbá religion to suit its notion of racial identity.”—Jacob Olupona, editor of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this highly original analysis, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows how the apparent stability of ‘tradition’ at different moments in time has been the product of processes of innovation made both necessary and possible during particular phases of economic limitation and religious and political oppression in the long historical stream of ‘black transatlantic’ cultural production.”—Brackette F. Williams, author of \u003ci\u003eStains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Orthography ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xxix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: From Village, to Nation, to Transnational Networks 1\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE. VERTICAL FORMATIONS OF INSTITUTIONS \u003cbr\u003e 1 “On Far Away Shores, Home Is Not Far”: Mapping Formations of Place, Race, and Nation 51\u003cbr\u003e 2 “White Man Say They Are African”: Roots Tourism and the Industry of Race as Culture 107\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO. THE MAKING OF TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS \u003cbr\u003e 3 Micropower and Oyo Hegemony in Yoruba Transnational Revivalism 157\u003cbr\u003e 4 “Many Were Taken, but Some Were Sent”: The Remembering and Forgetting of Yoruba Group Membership 201\u003cbr\u003e 5 Ritual Change and the Changing Canon: Divinatory Legitimation of Yoruba Ancestral Roots 231\u003cbr\u003e 6 Recasting Gender: Family, Status, and Legal Institutionalism 257\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Multisited Ethnographies in an Age of Globalization 279\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 289\u003cbr\u003e Notes 295 \u003cbr\u003e Glossary 317\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 323\u003cbr\u003e Index 341","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138190082391,"sku":"9780822333302","price":116.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822333302.jpg?v=1751918370","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mapping-yoruba-networks-9780822333302","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}