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

• Note on Orthography ixPreface xiAcknowledgments xxixIntroduction: From Village, to Nation, to Transnational Networks 1PART ONE. VERTICAL FORMATIONS OF INSTITUTIONS 1 “On Far Away Shores, Home Is Not Far”: Mapping Formations of Place, Race, and Nation 512 “White Man Say They Are African”: Roots Tourism and the Industry of Race as Culture 107PART TWO. THE MAKING OF TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS 3 Micropower and Oyo Hegemony in Yoruba Transnational Revivalism 1574 “Many Were Taken, but Some Were Sent”: The Remembering and Forgetting of Yoruba Group Membership 2015 Ritual Change and the Changing Canon: Divinatory Legitimation of Yoruba Ancestral Roots 2316 Recasting Gender: Family, Status, and Legal Institutionalism 257Epilogue: Multisited Ethnographies in an Age of Globalization 279Appendix 289Notes 295 Glossary 317Bibliography 323Index 341

“In her pioneering analysis of the formation of a new religious nationalist movement, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows in fascinating detail how the ÒyÓtÚnjÍ community refashioned YorÙbÁ religion to suit its notion of racial identity.”-Jacob Olupona, editor of African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions “In this highly original analysis, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows how the apparent stability of ‘tradition’ at different moments in time has been the product of processes of innovation made both necessary and possible during particular phases of economic limitation and religious and political oppression in the long historical stream of ‘black transatlantic’ cultural production.”-Brackette F. Williams, author of Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle

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

• Note on Orthography ixPreface xiAcknowledgments xxixIntroduction: From Village, to Nation, to Transnational Networks 1PART ONE. VERTICAL FORMATIONS OF INSTITUTIONS 1 “On Far Away Shores, Home Is Not Far”: Mapping Formations of Place, Race, and Nation 512 “White Man Say They Are African”: Roots Tourism and the Industry of Race as Culture 107PART TWO. THE MAKING OF TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS 3 Micropower and Oyo Hegemony in Yoruba Transnational Revivalism 1574 “Many Were Taken, but Some Were Sent”: The Remembering and Forgetting of Yoruba Group Membership 2015 Ritual Change and the Changing Canon: Divinatory Legitimation of Yoruba Ancestral Roots 2316 Recasting Gender: Family, Status, and Legal Institutionalism 257Epilogue: Multisited Ethnographies in an Age of Globalization 279Appendix 289Notes 295 Glossary 317Bibliography 323Index 341

“In her pioneering analysis of the formation of a new religious nationalist movement, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows in fascinating detail how the ÒyÓtÚnjÍ community refashioned YorÙbÁ religion to suit its notion of racial identity.”-Jacob Olupona, editor of African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions “In this highly original analysis, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows how the apparent stability of ‘tradition’ at different moments in time has been the product of processes of innovation made both necessary and possible during particular phases of economic limitation and religious and political oppression in the long historical stream of ‘black transatlantic’ cultural production.”-Brackette F. Williams, author of Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle

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

• Note on Orthography ixPreface xiAcknowledgments xxixIntroduction: From Village, to Nation, to Transnational Networks 1PART ONE. VERTICAL FORMATIONS OF INSTITUTIONS 1 “On Far Away Shores, Home Is Not Far”: Mapping Formations of Place, Race, and Nation 512 “White Man Say They Are African”: Roots Tourism and the Industry of Race as Culture 107PART TWO. THE MAKING OF TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS 3 Micropower and Oyo Hegemony in Yoruba Transnational Revivalism 1574 “Many Were Taken, but Some Were Sent”: The Remembering and Forgetting of Yoruba Group Membership 2015 Ritual Change and the Changing Canon: Divinatory Legitimation of Yoruba Ancestral Roots 2316 Recasting Gender: Family, Status, and Legal Institutionalism 257Epilogue: Multisited Ethnographies in an Age of Globalization 279Appendix 289Notes 295 Glossary 317Bibliography 323Index 341

“In her pioneering analysis of the formation of a new religious nationalist movement, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows in fascinating detail how the ÒyÓtÚnjÍ community refashioned YorÙbÁ religion to suit its notion of racial identity.”-Jacob Olupona, editor of African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions “In this highly original analysis, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows how the apparent stability of ‘tradition’ at different moments in time has been the product of processes of innovation made both necessary and possible during particular phases of economic limitation and religious and political oppression in the long historical stream of ‘black transatlantic’ cultural production.”-Brackette F. Williams, author of Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle