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The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba 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. Weaving toget...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ogundiran, Akinwumi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Yoruba (African people)
Yoruba (Peuple d'Afrique)
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Introduction. Writing a new history
  • Part II. Birth of the Yorùbá community of practice, ca. 300 BC-AD 1420. The emergence of a house society
  • Knowledge capital and referentiality
  • Part III. Atrophy and regeneration, ca. 1400-1650. Atrophy
  • Regeneration and restoration
  • Part IV. Atlantic entanglements, 1630-1840. Merchant capital revolution
  • Sociality of merchant capital
  • Perennial inequality
  • A house divided
  • Part V. Conclusion. The past in the present.

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