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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
together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science
with oral traditions, and material culture with
mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional, and even
global dimensions of Yoruba history. The Yoruba: A New History
 offers an intriguing cultural, political, economic,
intellectual, and social history from ca. 300 BC to 1840. It
accounts for the events, peoples, and practices, as well as the
theories of knowledge, ways of being, and social valuations that
shaped the Yoruba experience at different junctures of time. The
result is a new framework for understanding the Yoruba
past and present.
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
together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science
with oral traditions, and material culture with
mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional, and even
global dimensions of Yoruba history. The Yoruba: A New History
 offers an intriguing cultural, political, economic,
intellectual, and social history from ca. 300 BC to 1840. It
accounts for the events, peoples, and practices, as well as the
theories of knowledge, ways of being, and social valuations that
shaped the Yoruba experience at different junctures of time. The
result is a new framework for understanding the Yoruba
past and present.
Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at
spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic
world where African descended communities have expressed their
values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The
contributors trace the impact of encounters with the Atlantic world
on African cultural formation, how entanglement with commerce,
commodification, and enslavement and with colonialism,
emancipation, and self-rule manifested itself in the shaping of
ritual acts such as those associated with birth, death, healing,
and protection. Taken as a whole, the book offers new perspectives
on what the materials of rituals can tell us about the intimate
processes of cultural transformation and the dynamics of the human
condition."
This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African
societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using
historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this
collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the
commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically
reshaped the regional contours of political organization across
West Africa. The essays examine how social and political
transformations occurred at the regional level by exploring
regional economic networks, population shifts, cultural values and
ideologies. The book demonstrates the importance of anthropological
insights not only to the broad political history of West Africa,
but also to an understanding of political culture as a form of
meaningful social practice.
This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African
societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using
historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this
collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the
commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically
reshaped the regional contours of political organization across
West Africa. The essays examine how social and political
transformations occurred at the regional level by exploring
regional economic networks, population shifts, cultural values, and
ideologies. The book demonstrates the importance of anthropological
insights not only to the broad political history of West Africa,
but also to an understanding of political culture as a form of
meaningful social practice.
This is the first book devoted to the archaeology of African
life on both sides of the Atlantic; it highlights the importance of
archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic
world s Africans. Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African
Diaspora presents a diverse, richly textured picture of Africans
experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade and offers
the most comprehensive explanation of how African lives became
entangled with the creation of the modern world. Through
interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, the dynamics of a
comparative transatlantic archaeology is developed."
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