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The Yorùbá

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"The Yorùbá: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yorùbá people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent."--Back cover.

Table of Contents

part 1 Introduction -- 1.Writing A New History -- part III Birth of the Yoruba Community of Practice, circa 300 BC-AD 1420 -- 2.The Emergence Of A House Society -- 3.Knowledge Capital And Referentiality -- part III Atrophy and Regeneration, circa 1400-1650 -- 4.Atrophy -- 5.Regeneration And Restoration -- part IV Atlantic Entanglements, 1630-1840 -- 6.Merchant Capital Revolution -- 7.Sociality Of Merchant Capital -- 8.Perennial Inequality -- 9.A House Divided -- part V Conclusion -- 10.The Past in the Present.

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Ogundiran, Akinwumi. The Yorùbá

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:20:43.451786+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23975103

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
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