Unshared Identity : Posthumous paternity in a contemporary Yoruba community

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Unshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju-Ekiti, a Yoruba-speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning-making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present-day Nigeria were preyed upo...

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Main Author: Ololajulo, Babajide (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Grahamstown, South Africa : NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2018.
Series:African humanities series.
Subjects:
Anthropology > Nigeria.
Yoruba (African people) > Social life and customs.
Yoruba (African people) > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Anthropology
Yoruba (African people)
Yoruba (African people) > Social life and customs
Nigeria
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Yoruba interconnections, colonial encounters, and epistemological crises
  • The fated grass : self-representation and identity construction
  • Posthumous offspring and the politics of legitimacy
  • Endogenous values, spatial delineation and cultural authenticity
  • Neo-repugnancy : assisted reproduction as an obscenity
  • Beyond 'epistemicide' : reclaiming humanity for Africa.

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