Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People

by Bukola A Oyenyi and Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi

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This is a book on the social and cultural history of Yoruba people, a people in southwest Nigeria. As the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of Yoruba dress in historical perspective, this book is an important contribution to African history in general and the Yoruba cultural history in particular. The book illuminates the impact of Christianity, Islam, and British colonialism on the construction of Yoruba identity, and how dress was entangled...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1604978996

ISBN13:9781604978995

Release Date:September 2015

Publisher:Cambria Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.36 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Health Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting History

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