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The categories of Yorùbá names, the naming ceremony, the names given for birth circumstances and for children thought to return, and a worked list of common names with their literal meanings.
Yoruba twins, the highest twinning rate in the world, the ere ibeji figure carved when a twin dies, and the reversal from infanticide to veneration.
The carved figures made when a Yoruba twin dies, what the family does with them, the genuinely exceptional twinning rate that produced them, and how tens of thousands of them ended up in Western collections.
Yoruba song across work, ritual, nursing, children's play and social comment, with texts, and the problem of translating a song so that it can still be sung.
Ìyá as a status and a philosophical category, the world's highest twinning rate and what the Yoruba built on it, what infertility actually costs a woman, àbíkú and the medical evidence behind it, and the ìyá abiye who delivered the children.
What traditional birth attendants do and what the outcome evidence shows, the real demographic explanation for the Yoruba twinning rate and what it is not, infant care practice, and an honest division between what helps, what is neutral and what kills.
The cosmology, ritual care, material culture, and diaspora evolution of the Yoruba divine twins who share a single soul.
An analysis of the Ìbàràpá Yorùbá subgroup, examining settlement geography, dialectology, political institutions, religious life, and the culture of twin veneration.
A comprehensive scholarly analysis of Yoruba twin memorial figures, their theological functions, carving techniques, stylistic regionalisms, museum histories, and contemporary restitution debates.
A tale of royal twins hidden from a law requiring their death, one of whom drowns the other for the throne and is exposed when first a fish and then the river itself sing what lies in the water.
An analysis of Yoruba infant soothing verse, maternal lullabies, and twin praise songs within oral literary and ethnomusicological traditions.
Seven further divinities' praise texts, from the ancestral founder to the deified river of a jealous co-wife, including two conflicting sources for the goddess of wealth.