Oduduwa''s Chain - Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic

Klappentext Oduduwa's Chain is renowned historian and anthropologist Andy Apter's provocative statement on how scholars of the Black Atlantic should think through African heritage. Based on a lifetime of study of Yoruba history and culture in Nigeria, and filled with fascinating ethnographic and historical detail, the book argues that West African cultural frameworks--when critically reformulated--illuminate important New World historical trajectories. Apter applies a generative model of cultural revision to syncretism, creolization, ritual, gender, and ethnogenesis in the Americas, thereby identifying formative Yoruba influences without reifying its culture and tradition. Apter thus establishes the conceptual ground for recovering African genealogies in the Black Atlantic, not merely as objects of imperial ideology, or of transnational elite intellectual production, but as frameworks of collective empowerment in West Africa and the Americas.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Apter, Andrew H. Apter, Apter Andrew
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780226506418
• ISBN: 978-0-226-50641-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), HISTORY / Africa / East, Archaeology, Social and cultural anthropology, RELIGION / Indigenous, Folk & Tribal