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The restricted societies that sit alongside orisa worship: Oro and its night curfew, the Ijebu Agemo, the Ogboni earth society and its judicial role, described soberly and with the limits of public knowledge stated.
Twelve Yorùbá proverbs built on èèwọ̀ (taboo) and related concepts of the forbidden, showing how proverb-speech treats prohibition as binding, socially variable, and in at least one case, lethal to violate.
An examination of Orò as a male ancestral judicial institution, its acoustic manifestation through the bullroarer, ritual curfews, and transatlantic developments.
A comprehensive scholarly study of the Ẹ̀gbá subgroup, detailing their forest origin traditions, 1830 resettlement at Abẹ́òkúta, quadripartite federal institutions, dialectology, and distinctive religious systems.
A historical, linguistic, and socio-religious examination of the western Yorùbá subgroup formerly known as Ẹ̀gbádò and officially redesignated as Yewa in 1995.
An analysis of the Ìbàràpá Yorùbá subgroup, examining settlement geography, dialectology, political institutions, religious life, and the culture of twin veneration.
A historical, linguistic, and cultural study of the Anàgó, a Western Yorùbá subgroup inhabiting the Nigeria-Benin borderland whose name became a defining transatlantic ethnonym.
The Yoruba hide-and-seek game, its sung call-and-response opening, its rules, and the Òrò imagery embedded in the chant that most players no longer connect to the masquerade tradition it names.
A taxonomic guide clarifying the cosmological, political, and gender distinctions among Yoruba ritual embodiments often lumped together as generic masquerades.
A rigorous distinction among core Yorùbá linguistic, discursive, and oral literary categories that are frequently conflated in translation.