Read The Yoruba: A New History

The Yoruba: A New History

Akinwumi Ogundiran

4.9/5 (34104 ratings)

Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Yoruba: A New History. To get started finding The Yoruba: A New History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0253051487

Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Yoruba: A New History. To get started finding The Yoruba: A New History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Yoruba: A New History

The Yoruba: A New History

More Books

Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (Blacks in the Diaspora)

Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (Blacks in the Diaspora)

Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic (Blacks in the Diaspora)

Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic (Blacks in the Diaspora)

Precolonial Nigeria: Essays In Honor Of Toyin Falola

Precolonial Nigeria: Essays In Honor Of Toyin Falola

Archaeology and History in Ilare District (Central Yorubaland, Nigeria) 1200-1900 AD

Archaeology and History in Ilare District (Central Yorubaland, Nigeria) 1200-1900 AD

Beads, cowries, and cultural translations of the Atlantic experience in Yorubaland, 1600-1850 (AH)

Beads, cowries, and cultural translations of the Atlantic experience in Yorubaland, 1600-1850 (AH)

Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives

Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives