Yoruba

Akinwumi Ogundiran is Chancellor's Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology & History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a co-editor of Materialities of Rituals in the Black Atlantic, named a Choice magazine's 2015 outstanding book.

• DedicationList of IllustrationsList of TablesList of AppendicesGlossary of Yorùbá wordsPrefaceAcknowledgmentI. Introduction1. Writing a New HistoryII. Birth of the Yorùbá Community of Practice, ca. 300 BC–AD 14202. The Emergence of a House Society3. Knowledge Capital and ReferentialityIII. Atrophy and Regeneration, 1400–16504. Atrophy5. Regeneration and RestorationIV. Atlantic Entanglements, 1630-18406. Merchant Capital Revolution7. Sociality of Merchant Capital8. Perennial Inequality9. A House DividedV. Conclusion10. The Past in the PresentBibliographyAppendicesIndex

The 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)