Clarke Kamari Maxine Clarke

Mapping Yorùbá Networks (eBook, PDF)

Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities

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Produktbeschreibung

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 of how Yorùbá òrìsà voodoo religious practices are reworked as expressions of transnational racial politics. Drawing on several years of multisited fieldwork in the United States and Nigeria, Kamari Maxine Clarke describes Òyótúnjí in vivid detail-the physical space, government, rituals, language, and marriage and kinship practices-and explores how ideas of what constitutes the Yorùbá past are constructed. She highlights the connections between contemporary Yorùbá transatlantic religious networks and the post-1970s institutionalization of roots heritage in American social life.

Examining how the development of a deterritorialized network of black cultural nationalists became aligned with a lucrative late-twentieth-century roots heritage market, Clarke explores the dynamics of Òyótúnjí 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 Òyótúnjí 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 Yorùbá-are the true claimants to the ancestral history of the Great Òyó Empire of the Yorùbá people. Mapping Yorùbá 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822385417
• Artikelnr.: 54819195

Autorenporträt

Kamari Maxine Clarke

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Orthography ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xxix
Introduction: From Village, to Nation, to Transnational Networks 1
PART ONE. VERTICAL FORMATIONS OF INSTITUTIONS
1 “On Far Away Shores, Home Is Not Far”: Mapping Formations of Place, Race,
and Nation 51
2 “White Man Say They Are African”: Roots Tourism and the Industry of Race
as Culture 107
PART TWO. THE MAKING OF TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS
3 Micropower and Oyo Hegemony in Yoruba Transnational Revivalism 157
4 “Many Were Taken, but Some Were Sent”: The Remembering and Forgetting of
Yoruba Group Membership 201
5 Ritual Change and the Changing Canon: Divinatory Legitimation of Yoruba
Ancestral Roots 231
6 Recasting Gender: Family, Status, and Legal Institutionalism 257
Epilogue: Multisited Ethnographies in an Age of Globalization 279
Appendix 289
Notes 295
Glossary 317
Bibliography 323
Index 341