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catalog abstract "Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Oyotunji African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the other the establishment of an ancient Yoruba Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles southwest of Charleston, Oyotunji is a Yoruba revivalist community founded in 1970. "Mapping Yoruba Networks" is an innovative ethnography of Oyotunji and a theoretically sophisticated exploration of how Yoruba Orisa voodoo religious practices are reworked as expressions of transnational racial politics. Drawing on several years of multi-sited fieldwork in the United States and Nigeria, Kamari Maxine Clarke describes Oyotunji in vivid detail - the physical space, government, rituals, language, and marriage and kinship practices - and explores how ideas of what constitutes the Yoruba past are constructed. She highlights the connections between contemporary Yoruba transatlantic religious networks and the post-1970s institutionalization of roots heritage in American social life. Examining how the development of a de-territorialized network of black cultural nationalists became aligned with a lucrative late-twentieth-century roots heritage market, Clarke explores the dynamics of Oyotunji Village's religious and tourist economy. She discusses how the community generates income through the sale of prophetic divinatory consultations, African market souvenirs - such as cloth, books, candles, and carvings - and fees for community-based tours and dining services. Clarke accompanied Oyotunji villagers to Nigeria, and she describes how these heritage travelers often returned home feeling that despite the separation of their ancestors from Africa as a result of transatlantic slavery, they - more than the Nigerian Yoruba - are the true claimants to the ancestral history of the Great Oyo Empire of the Yoruba people. "Mapping Yoruba Networks" is a unique look at the political economy of homeland identification and the transnational construction and legitimization of ideas such as authenticity, ancestry, blackness, and tradition.".
catalog contributor b13321774.
catalog coverage "Oyotunji African Village (S.C.) History.".
catalog coverage "Oyotunji African Village (S.C.) Social life and customs.".
catalog created "2004.".
catalog date "2004".
catalog date "2004.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
catalog description "Clarke accompanied Oyotunji villagers to Nigeria, and she describes how these heritage travelers often returned home feeling that despite the separation of their ancestors from Africa as a result of transatlantic slavery, they - more than the Nigerian Yoruba - are the true claimants to the ancestral history of the Great Oyo Empire of the Yoruba people. "Mapping Yoruba Networks" is a unique look at the political economy of homeland identification and the transnational construction and legitimization of ideas such as authenticity, ancestry, blackness, and tradition.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-340) and index.".
catalog description "Introduction : from village, to nation, to transnational networks -- "On far away shores, home is not far" : mapping formations of place, race, and nation -- "White man say they are African" : roots tourism and the industry of race as culture -- Micropower and Ọ̀yọ́ hegemony in Yorùbá transnational revivalism -- "Many were taken, but some were sent" : the remembering and forgetting of Yorùbá group membership -- Ritual change and the changing canon : divinatory legitimation of Yorùbá ancestral roots -- Recasting gender : family, status, and legal institutionalism -- Epilogue : multisited ethnographies in an age of globalization.".
catalog description "She highlights the connections between contemporary Yoruba transatlantic religious networks and the post-1970s institutionalization of roots heritage in American social life. Examining how the development of a de-territorialized network of black cultural nationalists became aligned with a lucrative late-twentieth-century roots heritage market, Clarke explores the dynamics of Oyotunji Village's religious and tourist economy. She discusses how the community generates income through the sale of prophetic divinatory consultations, African market souvenirs - such as cloth, books, candles, and carvings - and fees for community-based tours and dining services. ".
catalog description "Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Oyotunji African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the other the establishment of an ancient Yoruba Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles southwest of Charleston, Oyotunji is a Yoruba revivalist community founded in 1970. "Mapping Yoruba Networks" is an innovative ethnography of Oyotunji and a theoretically sophisticated exploration of how Yoruba Orisa voodoo religious practices are reworked as expressions of transnational racial politics. Drawing on several years of multi-sited fieldwork in the United States and Nigeria, Kamari Maxine Clarke describes Oyotunji in vivid detail - the physical space, government, rituals, language, and marriage and kinship practices - and explores how ideas of what constitutes the Yoruba past are constructed. ".
catalog extent "xxxiv, 345 p. :".
catalog hasFormat "Mapping Yorùbá networks.".
catalog identifier "0822333309 (cloth : alk. paper)".
catalog identifier "0822333422 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
catalog isFormatOf "Mapping Yorùbá networks.".
catalog issued "2004".
catalog issued "2004.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Durham : Duke University Press,".
catalog relation "Mapping Yorùbá networks.".
catalog spatial "Oyotunji African Village (S.C.) History.".
catalog spatial "Oyotunji African Village (S.C.) Social life and customs.".
catalog spatial "South Carolina Oyotunji African Village".
catalog spatial "South Carolina Oyotunji African Village.".
catalog subject "305.896/333 22".
catalog subject "African Americans Race identity South Carolina Oyotunji African Village.".
catalog subject "African Americans South Carolina Oyotunji African Village Ethnic identity.".
catalog subject "African Americans South Carolina Oyotunji African Village Rites and ceremonies.".
catalog subject "Culture and tourism South Carolina Oyotunji African Village.".
catalog subject "E194.Y66 C53 2004".
catalog subject "Yoruba (African people) South Carolina Oyotunji African Village Ethnic identity.".
catalog subject "Yoruba (African people) South Carolina Oyotunji African Village Migrations.".
catalog subject "Yoruba (African people) South Carolina Oyotunji African Village Rites and ceremonies.".
catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : from village, to nation, to transnational networks -- "On far away shores, home is not far" : mapping formations of place, race, and nation -- "White man say they are African" : roots tourism and the industry of race as culture -- Micropower and Ọ̀yọ́ hegemony in Yorùbá transnational revivalism -- "Many were taken, but some were sent" : the remembering and forgetting of Yorùbá group membership -- Ritual change and the changing canon : divinatory legitimation of Yorùbá ancestral roots -- Recasting gender : family, status, and legal institutionalism -- Epilogue : multisited ethnographies in an age of globalization.".
catalog title "Mapping Yorùbá networks : power and agency in the making of transnational communities / Kamari Maxine Clarke.".
catalog type "text".