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Decolonizing African knowledge : autoethnography and African epistemologies /

Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge, and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the "self" and Yoruba Being (the individual and...

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Main Authors: Falola, Toyin. (Author)
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2022.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: African identities: past and present
Subjects:
Yoruba (African people) > Material culture.
Yoruba (African people) > Archives.
Yoruba (African people) > Historiography.
Material culture > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Ethnology > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Authorship.
Decolonization > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Decolonization.
Ethnology > Authorship.
Historiography.
Material culture.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Historiography.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Summary: Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge, and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the "self" and Yoruba Being (the individual and the collective) in the context of the African decolonial project, Falola strips away Eurocentric influences and interruptions from African epistemology. Avoiding colonial archival sources, it grounds itself in alternative archives created by memory, spoken words, images, and photographs to look at the themes of politics, culture, nation, ethnicity, satire, poetics, magic, myth, metaphor, sculpture, textiles, hair, and gender. Vividly illustrated in color, it uses diverse and novel methods to access an African way of knowing. Exploring the different ways that a society understands and presents itself, this book highlights convergence, enmeshing private and public data to provide a comprehensive understanding of society, public consciousness, and cultural identity.
Carrier Form: xix, 513 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-505) and index.
ISBN: 9781316511237
1316511235
Index Number: DT515
CLC: K884
Call Number: K884/F196
Contents: Part I. Introduction : 1. Prologue: My archive -- 2. Autoethnography and epistemic liberation -- Part II. History, fictions, and factions : 3. Narrative politics and cultural ideologies -- 4. Memory, magic, myth, and metaphor -- 5. A poetological narration of the nation -- 6. A poetological narration of the self -- 7. Satire and society -- 8. Narrative politics and the politics of narrative -- Part III. Visual cultures : 9. Sculpture as archive -- 10. Textiles as texts -- 11. Canvas and the archiving of ethnic reality -- 12. Yorùbá hair art and the agency of women -- 13. Photography and ethnography -- Part IV. Conclusion : 14. Self, collective, and collection.

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