Akinwumi Ogundiran
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Academic, researcher, professor of Africana studies, Nigerian archaeologist
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Akinwumi Ogundiran's Degrees
- PhD Archaeology University of Ibadan
- Masters Archaeology University of Ibadan
- Bachelors Archaeology University of Ibadan
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Akinwumi Ogundiran is the Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Northwestern University. He is an archaeologist, anthropologist, and cultural historian, whose research focuses on the Yoruba world of western Africa, Atlantic Africa, and the African Diaspora. He was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, and migrated to the United States in 1993. He was Chancellor's Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology & History at UNC Charlotte.
Akinwumi Ogundiran's Published Works
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- OF SMALL THINGS REMEMBERED: BEADS, COWRIES, AND CULTURAL TRANSLATIONS OF THE ATLANTIC EXPERIENCE IN YORUBALAND (2002) (138)
- Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (2007) (97)
- Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives (2012) (53)
- The Yoruba (2020) (38)
- Archaeology and history in Ìlàrè District (Central Yorubaland, Nigeria), 1200-1900 A.D. (2002) (38)
- Four Millennia of Cultural History in Nigeria (ca. 2000 B.C.–A.D. 1900): Archaeological Perspectives (2005) (34)
- “Our Ancestors Were Material Scientists” (2015) (34)
- Factional Competition, Sociopolitical Development, and Settlement Cycling in Ìlàrè District (ca. 1200-1900): Oral Traditions of Historical Experience in a Yorùbà Community (2001) (32)
- Ceramic Spheres and Regional Networks in the Yoruba-Edo Region, Nigeria, 13th–19th Centuries A.C. (2001) (29)
- Material Life and Domestic Economy in a Frontier of the Oyo Empire during the Mid-Atlantic Age* (2009) (26)
- Potsherd pavements in Ilare-Ijesa, Yorubaland : A regional perspective (2000) (25)
- The Making of an Internal Frontier Settlement: Archaeology and Historical Process in Osun Grove (Nigeria), Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries (2014) (21)
- Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: The Formation of an Oyo Imperial Colony during the Atlantic Age (2012) (19)
- Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic (2014) (14)
- Towns and States of the West African Forest Belt (2013) (14)
- Filling a Gap in the Ife–Benin Interaction Field (Thirteenth–Sixteenth Centuries AD): Excavations in Iloyi Settlement, Ijesaland (2002) (13)
- The End of Prehistory? An Africanist Comment (2013) (8)
- Spatial Simulation Modeling of Settlement Distribution Driven by Random Forest: Consideration of Landscape Visibility (2020) (8)
- Settlement cycling and regional interactions in central Yorùbá-land, AD 1200-1900 : archaeology and history in Ìlàrè district, Nigeria (2000) (7)
- The COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives for Reimaging and Reimagining Archaeological Practice (2020) (6)
- Potters’ marks and social relations of ceramic distribution in the Oyo Empire (2011) (5)
- African Atlantic Archaeology and Africana Studies: A Programmatic Agenda (2008) (5)
- The Yoruba: A New History (2020) (5)
- Editor’s Inaugural Remarks (2019) (5)
- Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Indigenous Knowledge (2019) (5)
- The Osun-Osogbo Grove as a Social Common and an Uncommon Ground: An Analysis of Patrimonial Patronage in Postcolonial Nigeria (2014) (5)
- Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa (2012) (5)
- Colonial Modernity, Rituals and Feasting in Odùduwà Grove, Ilé-Ifẹ̀ (Nigeria) (2017) (4)
- African Archaeology Without Frontiers: Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress (2016) (3)
- On COVID-19 and Matters Arising (2020) (3)
- Pioneers of archaeological thought and practice in postcolonial Nigeria (2015) (3)
- Doing Archaeology in a Turbulent Time (2021) (2)
- Parallel Landscape Visibility Analysis: A Case Study in Archaeology (2020) (2)
- Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast c.1550–c.1885, by Silke Strickrodt (2016) (2)
- Ceramics in the African Atlantic: new perspectives on social, economic, political and other everyday interactions (2011) (2)
- Being and becoming Hausa: interdisciplinary perspectives, edited by Anne Haour and Benedetta Rossi (2012) (1)
- On COVID-19 and Matters Arising (2020) (1)
- Movementality: a reflection on the experience of mobility (2016) (1)
- Rituals and economics of regeneration (2019) (1)
- African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction (2006) (1)
- Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: Preface (2012) (0)
- Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture (review) (2012) (0)
- Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance (2020) (0)
- The Making of an Internal Frontier Settlement: Archaeology and Historical Process in Osun Grove (Nigeria), Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries (2014) (0)
- The African Archaeological Review Turns Forty: Some Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future (2023) (0)
- Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: State-Generated Landscapes (2012) (0)
- Classic Ilé-Ifẹ̀: A Consideration of Scale in the Archaeology of Early Yorùbá Urbanism, ad 1000–1400 (2023) (0)
- Nigeria: archaeological survey at Ipole-Ijesa, southwest Nigeria: a preliminary report (1994) (0)
- John L. Cotter Award in Historical Archaeology (2011) (0)
- Peter R. Schmidt and Innocent Pikirayi, Eds.: Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa: Decolonizing Practice (2018) (0)
- A Mosaic of Yorùbá Ontology and Materiality of Pleasure Since AD 1000 (2022) (0)
- Issues in Historiography (2003) (0)
- Framing Local History with Global Archaeological Lenses in Osun Grove, Nigeria (2018) (0)
- Managing Epidemics in Ancestral Yorùbá Towns and Cities: “Sacred Groves” as Isolation Sites (2020) (0)
- A History of the Yoruba People. By S. Adebanji Akintoye. Amalion Publishing, Dakar, 2010, xii + 498 pp. ISBN 978-235926-005-2 (Hardback). US$ 50.00. (2012) (0)
- The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589, by Toby Green (2013) (0)
- Peter R. Schmidt and Innocent Pikirayi, Eds.: Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa: Decolonizing Practice (2018) (0)
- Yorubaland : A regional perspective (2003) (0)
- Editor’s Inaugural Remarks (2019) (0)
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