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The hairs of your head are all numbered: Symbolisms of hair and dreadlocks in the Boboshanti order of Rastafari

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dc.contributor.author Botchway, De-Valera N.Y.M
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-13T11:39:29Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-13T11:39:29Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.identifier.issn 23105496
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6753
dc.description 19p:, ill. en_US
dc.description.abstract This article’s readings of Rastafari philosophy and culture through the optic of the Boboshanti (a Rastafari group) in relation to their hair – dreadlocks – tease out the symbolic representations of dreadlocks as connecting social communication, identity, subliminal protest and general resistance to oppression and racial discrimination, particularly among the Black race. By exploring hair symbolisms in connection with dreadlocks and how they shape an Afrocentric philosophical thought and movement for the Boboshanti, the article argues that hair can be historicised and theorised to elucidate the link between the physical and social bodies within the contexts of ideology and identity en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Cape Coast en_US
dc.title The hairs of your head are all numbered: Symbolisms of hair and dreadlocks in the Boboshanti order of Rastafari en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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