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The agricultural base, yam and its ritual centrality, the staple dishes and their regional variation, palm oil, food taboos and their lineage and orisa basis, and the social meaning of feeding people.

The farmland typology, land tenure, and cooperative and unfree labor institutions that produced Yoruba staple crops, and how Atlantic-introduced maize and cassava reshaped the food base from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.

An extensive study of Ọdún Ọba, the royal festival celebrating monarchical renewal, civic allegiance, ancestral intercession, and agricultural transition across Yoruba polities.