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The Market as Meeting Place
01 / INHERITANCE
Begin with the context.
Research on indigenous Yorùbá markets treats them as places of exchange with social, symbolic and sacred dimensions.
Place & variation
Yorùbá communities, primarily southwestern Nigeria. Social institutions change across place and time.
02 / SYSTEM — EDITORIAL ANALYSIS
Coordination & exchange.
Exchange is situated within a lived social and symbolic space.
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
What does a market lose when only its transactions are made visible?
What if a marketplace were designed as civic space as carefully as a transaction platform?
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.