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Textiles texts and symbols : women dyers and symbols in the Indigo textile dyeing production process in Osogbo Nigeria
Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/62653 Textiles texts and symbols : women dyers and symbols in the Indigo textile dyeing production process in Osogbo Nigeria McNeill, Fraser G. OWOEYETAYO@GMAIL.COM Owoeye, Omotato Idowu Oke UCTD Ethnography Humanistic Anthropology Symbolic Anthropology Narrative Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2017. Despite the emergence of narrative and humanistic anthropological perspectives on thriving indigenous textile technologies, indigo dyed textile products are often read as homogenous products, devoid of Yoruba women-dyers' symbolic narratives. This ethnographic research on indigo textile dyeing in Osogbo examines the relationship between textile production and ritual by focusing on how indigenous peoples are stimulated to create what they make and the textile makers' unit of expression. A key argument throughout the thesis is that the dyeing act is a ritual performance by women dyers in Osogbo a re-enacted symbolic performance of the formation and evolution of human sociality and the socialization of human beings. It is also a symbolic representation of motherhood (parenthood when it comes to the societal level) a process of inscribing the kadara (destiny) of a child and the development of iwa (character) and ewa (beauty) to be an omoluabi (good and cultured child) in Yoruba ontology. The thesis also explores alkaline water production processes as part of the indigenous indigo textile dyeing processes and the use of adire textile for communication in Osogbo the notions of colour and colour symbolism and the use of texts, proverbs and images on dyed textiles as communicative tools specifically to show the transformatory nature of rituals in indigo textile dyeing. Anthropology and Archaeology DPhil Unrestricted 2017-10-11T11:55:47Z 2017-10-11T11:55:47Z 2017-09-06 2017 Thesis Owoeye, OIO 2017, Textiles texts and symbols : women dyers and symbols in the Indigo textile dyeing production process in Osogbo Nigeria, DPhil Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62653> S2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62653 en © 2017 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Ethnography Humanistic Anthropology Symbolic Anthropology Narrative Textiles texts and symbols : women dyers and symbols in the Indigo textile dyeing production process in Osogbo Nigeria |
| title | Textiles texts and symbols : women dyers and symbols in the Indigo textile dyeing production process in Osogbo Nigeria |
| title_full | Textiles texts and symbols : women dyers and symbols in the Indigo textile dyeing production process in Osogbo Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Textiles texts and symbols : women dyers and symbols in the Indigo textile dyeing production process in Osogbo Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Textiles texts and symbols : women dyers and symbols in the Indigo textile dyeing production process in Osogbo Nigeria |
| title_short | Textiles texts and symbols : women dyers and symbols in the Indigo textile dyeing production process in Osogbo Nigeria |
| title_sort | textiles texts and symbols women dyers and symbols in the indigo textile dyeing production process in osogbo nigeria |
| topic | UCTD Ethnography Humanistic Anthropology Symbolic Anthropology Narrative |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62653 |