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694 documents répartis en 38 sections. Filtrez par section, niveau, confiance ou étiquette.
The three registers this corpus never blends, what the confidence markers mean, and why initiate-held knowledge is left as a marked gap instead of being filled in.
Twelve widespread misconceptions about Yorùbá religion and thought, each answered with evidence, correcting hostile distortions and celebratory overclaims alike.
The kinds of evidence historians use to reconstruct the Yoruba past, what each kind can and cannot prove, and how one 1921 book shaped everything written since.
How Yoruba philosophical concepts map and fail to map onto Greek, Christian, Islamic and modern Western categories, and what goes wrong when the translation is made anyway.
Which books matter, which editions to get, what is legitimately available online, what to read in what order, and how to judge the sources you will meet.
The criteria Yoruba critics actually use to judge a carving, why the language and its praise poetry are the entry point rather than the ornament, and what goes wrong when European art-historical categories are applied to this material.
A method note explaining what kind of evidence exists for Yoruba figures from the earliest traditions to 1900, why the oldest names cannot be treated as documented biography, and how this section marks the difference.
Every claim about Yoruba tradition is one of three different kinds of statement, and mixing them up is the single most common way writing on this subject goes wrong. Learn to sort them and the rest of the corpus becomes far easier to read critically.