Social Science
Social Science
The Yoruba: A New History (hardcover)
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...
$144.00
Where Women Work: A Study of Yoruba Women in the Marketplace and in the Home (Anthropological Papers Series) (Vol. 53)
Niara Sudarkasa reports on Yoruba women and their role as traders in Nigeria’s marketing system. During Sudarkasa’s 15-month fieldwork in western Nigeria, she spoke with hundreds of traders, men and women, in order to understand the Yoruba markets, the division...
$33.00
What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance
Studies of Yoruba culture and performance tend to focus mainly on standardized forms of performance, and ignore the more prevalent performance culture which is central to everyday life. What the Forest Told Me conveys the elastic nature of African cultural expression through...
$35.00
Using the Hijab as an Instrument of Social Change Among the Yoruba Muslims
Scientific Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Theology - Islamic theology, course: LANGUAGES SECTION, language: English, abstract: The concept of change has, of recent, become a mantra echoed in all areas of life in this part of the...
$37.99
Unshared Identity: Posthumous Paternity in a Contemporary Yoruba Community (African Humanities)
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Unshared Identity: Posthumous Paternity in a Contemporary Yoruba Community (African Humanities)
Unshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju-Ekiti, a Yoruba-speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning-making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present-day Nigeria were preyed...
$35.00
American Neutrality: Its Cause And Cure (1916)
American Neutrality: Its Cause And Cure is a book written by James Mark Baldwin and published in 1916. The book explores the concept of American neutrality during World War I and argues that the United States should abandon its policy...
$23.95
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture
2014 Locus Awards Finalist, Nonfiction Category In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeoning community of artists creating Afrofuturist works, the innovators from the past, and the...
$16.95
TYPICAL YORUBA COMMUNITY: A Compendium of Research on Culture, Tradition and Historical Facts on Ifaki-Ekiti
This book covers various subjects and historical facts, which makes it to be an uncommon publication and first of its kind in the contemporary world. The book is fundamentally a compendium of historical repository on Ifaki Community; a complete research...
$25.49
Trends in Social and Political History in Okun-Yoruba Land to 1960
Okun Yoruba Land located in North Central Part of Nigeria is a minority polity. As a result of this, it does not attract serious academic attention from Researchers, as result there is a dearth of Historical Knowledge about the people....
$81.99
State-Periphery Relations and Sociopolitical Development in Igbominaland, North-Central Yoruba, Nigeria
A study, based on the author's dissertation and three seasons of archaeological investigations, of the development of centralised chiefdoms and social complexity (AD 1200-1837) and their effect on those living in peripheral areas of this part of Nigeria.
$90.00
The Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora (Black Studies and Critical Thinking) (hardcover)
The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture. The book highlights how...
$233.00
The Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora
$66.00
The Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora
The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture. The book highlights how...
$66.00
Shadow Mothers: Awon Ìyàmi Òṣòrọ̀ngà: Perspectives on Witchcraft in the Yorùbá Tradition
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Shadow Mothers: Awon Ìyàmi Òṣòrọ̀ngà: Perspectives on Witchcraft in the Yorùbá Tradition
Awọn Ìyàmi Òṣòrọ̀ngà is one of the most fascinating - and controversial - aspects of Òrìsà Lifestyle. And while much has been said about the subject, most attempts seem to add more confusion than clarity. SHADOW MOTHERS is a comprehensive...
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Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion
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Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion
J. Lorand Matory researches the trans-Atlantic comings and goings of Yoruba religion, as well as ethnic diversity in Black North America. With the support of the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the...
$34.95
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I. B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts (African Sources for African History, 12)
First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, "The Life Story of Me, Segilola" caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risqué escapades,...
$122.00
Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town
Elisha Renne focuses on things associated with the human body -- such as houses, graves, hymens, blood, and bones -- as a concrete means for analyzing new ideas of fertility in an Ekiti Yoruba town in Southwestern Nigeria. By looking...
$55.00
Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town (International African Library)
This study of local perceptions of population and development in a rural southwestern Nigerian town questions some of the underlying assumptions of the demographic theory of fertility transition. Fertility transition theory and modernization theory from which it derives have not...
$49.95
A Pilgrimage To My Motherland: An Account Of A Journey Among The Egbas And Yorubas Of Central Africa, In 1859-60
"A Pilgrimage To My Motherland"" is a travelogue written by Robert Campbell, recounting his journey among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa in 1859-60. The book provides a detailed account of Campbell's experiences, observations, and encounters with the people,...
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The Oral Traditions in ILE –IFE: The Yoruba People And Their Book Of Enlightenment
This research monograph discusses the understudied and often misunderstood aspects of West African culture and religion especially that of the Yoruba people and their Book of Enlightenment (Ife-Ifa) together with its metaphysical importance to the Yoruba as a source of...
$99.00
Oduduwa's Chain: Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic (hardcover)
Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa’s Chain, Andrew Apter explores a wide range of fascinating historical and ethnographic examples...
$133.00
Oduduwa's Chain: Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic
Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa’s Chain, Andrew Apter explores a wide range of fascinating historical and ethnographic examples...
$44.00
White Boy/Black Girl: What Our Differences Can Teach Us, One Honest Conversation at a Time (Coming Soon-September 17, 2024)
Let the Awkward Conversations Begin!Adaeze and Chad―two different people, two different backgrounds―both brought a lot of baggage into their relationship. Adaeze, a black Nigerian American woman who has lived with racism and discrimination her entire life. Chad, a white man with a...
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My Hair Can (Coming soon- September 3, 2024)
Celebrate what your hair can do! This joyful, rhyming picture book invites diverse girls and boys to embrace their natural hair with an uplifting reminder of their self-worth.My hair has roots from many places under the sun,telling the story of...
$17.99
Every Where Alien (coming soon-August 13, 2024)
ISBN: 9780063377998ISBN 10: 0063377993Imprint: AmistadOn Sale: August 13, 2024
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethunem(Coming Soon-July 23, 2024 )
An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberationWhen Mary McLeod...
$28.00
House Party (Coming Soon, June 27, 2023)
Ten bestselling, critically acclaimed authors deliver a fresh novel of interconnected stories that follows a group of young adults over the course of a few wild, transformative hours at an epic house party!The biggest event of the year is happening,...
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Control
Six talented but dangerously toxic personalities in the entertainment hotbed of Atlanta push their psychologist to her own vulnerable limits – and maybe beyond – in this enthralling, knife-edged thriller from NAACP Image Award-winning author Omar Tyree.Dr. Victoria Benning knows...
$28.00
Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People (Coming Soon- May 28, 2024)
Isn't anarchy just chaos? How could it possibly relate to Christianity? Countless people, including (and sometimes especially) those from religious backgrounds, are exploring radical ideas. The pandemic, the Black liberation movement, climate disaster--all these concerns are leading us to ask,...
$26.99
Masquerading Politics: Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town
In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. John Thabiti Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions in the Yoruba town of Otta, exploring transformations in performers, performances,...
$35.00
Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities
Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Òyótúnjí African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yorùbá Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles...
$114.95