The Yoruba Ogboni Cult in Oyo, by Peter Morton-Williams in the peer reviewed journal Africa in 1960, is a scholarly study of the Ogboni society's religious and political role among the Yoruba of Oyo. Its authority rests on standard academic peer review and Morton-Williams's direct anthropological fieldwork among Yoruba communities. Its limit is age and the position of an outside researcher describing an institution that itself holds restricted knowledge, so its specific claims about internal Ogboni ritual are best read as an anthropological outside account rather than as the society's own account of itself, and later scholarship on Yoruba secret societies has continued to refine points a 1960 study could not have known.
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: a peer reviewed journal article grounded in direct anthropological fieldwork, an outside researcher's account of an institution that itself holds restricted knowledge. NotesPeer-reviewed study of the Ogboni cult among the Yoruba of Oyo, Africa, 1960.
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AuthorPeter Morton-Williams
PublisherAfrica, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 362-374
Publication Year1960
Source TypeJournal article
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This source names Africa directly: "in the peer reviewed journal Africa in 1960, is a scholarly study of the Ogboni society's religious and political role among the Yoruba of Oyo."
Claims Backed By This Source (24 claims)
This source backs 24 claims across the atlas. As facts: 18 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 1 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Open Questions, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Secret Societies, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Cultures, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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