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

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on Orthography

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Village, to Nation, to Transnational Networks

PART ONE. VERTICAL FORMATIONS OF INSTITUTIONS

1 “OnFarAwayShores,HomeIsNotFar”: MappingFormationsofPlace,Race,andNation

2 “White Man Say They Are African”: Roots Tourism andtheIndustryofRaceasCulture

PART TWO. THE MAKING OF TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS

3. Micropower and Oyé Hegemony inYortiba TransnationalRevivalism

4 “Many Were Taken, but Some Were Sent”: The Remembering and Forgetting of Yoruba Group Membership

s RitualChangeandtheChangingCanon:Divinatory LegitimationofYorubaAncestralRoots

6 RecastingGender:Family,Status,andLegalInstitutionalism

Epilogue:MultisitedEthnographiesinanAgeofGlobalization

Appendix

Notes

Glossary

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Index