Kòkòrò
Invisible Bodily Agents
01 / INHERITANCE
Begin with the context.
Anthony Buckley's influential ethnography documents indigenous theories involving tiny bodily organisms/agents in explanations of health and illness.
Place & variation
Yorùbá material and devotional traditions. This public record gives cultural context, not instructions or evidence of medical efficacy.
02 / SYSTEM — EDITORIAL ANALYSIS
Knowledge & interpretation.
Accounts of unseen agents organise explanations of illness.
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
How can an exhibition compare explanatory models without declaring them equivalent?
Invisible causation: a reminder that explanatory models of the body existed beyond what could be directly seen.
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.
- 01Anthony D. Buckley — Yoruba Medicine (1985) ↗Scholarly context / ethnography preview · Opens source
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.