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Author: Kamari Maxine Clarke
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.526kg
ISBN: 9780822333425
ISBN 10: 0822333422
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 12 July 2004
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of oyotunji African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yoruba Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty- In her pioneering analysis of the formation of a new religious nationalist movement, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows in fascinating detail how the oyotunji community refashioned Yoruba religion to suit its notion of racial identity. --Jacob Olupona, editor of African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions In this highly original analysis, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows how the apparent stability of 'tradition' at different moments in time has been the product of processes of innovation made both necessary and possible during particular phases of economic limitation and religious and political oppression in the long historical stream of 'black transatlantic' cultural production. --Brackette F. Williams, author of Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle ... an impressive account of Oyotunji and the role of religious practices and memory of the past in creating a transnational community. Clarke has succeeded in creating a narrative in which the cultural politics of blackness has merged with the notion of citizenship and the quest to resolve the dilemma of globalisation and its cultural implications. --Jrnl of Contemporary Religion, October 2006
Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Oyotunji African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yoruba Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty- In her pioneering analysis of the formation of a new religious nationalist movement, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows in fascinating detail how the Oyotunji community refashioned Yoruba religion to suit its notion of racial identity. --Jacob Olupona, editor of African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions In this highly original analysis, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows how the apparent stability of 'tradition' at different moments in time has been the product of processes of innovation made both necessary and possible during particular phases of economic limitation and religious and political oppression in the long historical stream of 'black transatlantic' cultural production. --Brackette F. Williams, author of Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle ... an impressive account of Oyotunji and the role of religious practices and memory of the past in creating a transnational community. Clarke has succeeded in creating a narrative in which the cultural politics of blackness has merged with the notion of citizenship and the quest to resolve the dilemma of globalisation and its cultural implications. --Jrnl of Contemporary Religion, October 2006
Author Information
Kamari Maxine Clarke is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale University.
