Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities

by Kamari Maxine Clarke

Book Overview

Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Òyótúnjí African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yorùbá Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles southwest of Charleston, Òyótúnjí is a Yorùbá revivalist community founded in 1970. Mapping Yorùbá Networks is an innovative ethnography of Òyótúnjí and a theoretically sophisticated exploration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822333422
• ISBN13: 9780822333425
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"