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Prohibition and Responsibility
01 / INHERITANCE
Begin with the context.
Taboos organise prohibited conduct in particular communities, occupations and devotional relationships. Their meanings cannot be inferred from one universal list.
Place & variation
Yorùbá communities, primarily southwestern Nigeria. Social institutions change across place and time.
PUBLIC CONTEXT / RESTRICTED TRADITION
This entry discusses publicly documented context. It does not reproduce initiation material, ritual instructions or knowledge whose circulation is governed by a community.
02 / SYSTEM — EDITORIAL ANALYSIS
Coordination & exchange.
A prohibition relates conduct to a particular set of obligations.
This is the archive’s reading of a structure or relationship, not a claim that the tradition was designed as a modern technology.
03 / FUTURE — INHERITED FUTURES SPECULATION
Who should define a system’s limits, and who can question them?
Constraints as part of a system’s design: what does a community choose not to do?
An artistic proposition to explore. Historical documentation does not establish the technological analogy.
FOLLOW THE RESEARCH
Sources & context.
The linked sources distinguish collection evidence, research and contextual reading. They support the inheritance layer; the system and future layers are editorial interpretations.
Research edition 01 · September 2026. A desk-research synthesis; not a practitioner-certified account. Some linked books and articles require library access. Read the evidence guide ↗
Follow another thread.
Editorial links connect shared themes, objects and practices. They do not make the records interchangeable.