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Book SynopsisIn The Yoruba: A New History, Akinwumi Ogundiran examines the development of the ideas and practices that have shaped the Yoruba identity and experience going back as far as AD 800.
Trade ReviewThe Yorùbá: A New History by Akinwumi Ogundiran is an excellent compendium of Yorùbá studies focused on the period from 300 BC to AD 1840. The result is a "new history" of the Yorùbá born from systematic methods of research, inference, and interpretation that fit together knowledge from oral history, archaeology, and linguistic anthropology. The author's creative blend of methods, theories, models, and approaches establishes the concept of the book as a new cultural history of the Yorùbá.
-- O. Lasisi * African Archaeological Review *
The Yoruba: A New History is daring in scope and ambition and takes to task canonical stories of Yorùbá history. It is engaging and crosses datasets, making the case for a study of the deeper past that goes beyond the information oered by recent historical texts and the often-sober archaeological data. In this, Akin Ogundiran has written a book to be warmly welcomed by archaeologists.
-- Anne Haour * AZANIA: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA *
Table of ContentsDedication
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Appendices
Glossary of Yorùbá words
Preface
Acknowledgment
I. Introduction
1. Writing a New History
II. Birth of the Yorùbá Community of Practice, ca. 300 BC–AD 1420
2. The Emergence of a House Society
3. Knowledge Capital and Referentiality
III. Atrophy and Regeneration, 1400–1650
4. Atrophy
5. Regeneration and Restoration
IV. Atlantic Entanglements, 1630-1840
6. Merchant Capital Revolution
7. Sociality of Merchant Capital
8. Perennial Inequality
9. A House Divided
V. Conclusion
10. The Past in the Present
Bibliography
Appendices
Index
