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

by Kamari Maxine Clarke
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780822333302
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 384
  • Original Price: USD 124.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 704 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies

Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of y t nj African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yor b Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles southwest of Charleston, y t nj is a Yor b revivalist community founded in 1970. Mapping Yor b Networks is an innovative ethnography of y t nj and a theoretically sophisticated exploration of how Yor b r s 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 y t nj in vivid detail--the physical space, government, rituals, language, and marriage and kinship practices--and explores how ideas of what constitutes the Yor b past are constructed. She highlights the connections between contemporary Yor b 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 y t nj 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 y t nj 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 Yor b --are the true claimants to the ancestral history of the Great y Empire of the Yor b people. Mapping Yor b 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.

Kamari Maxine Clarke is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale University.

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