Research Catalog

Title

Ifá divination, knowledge, power, and performance / edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951-
• Abiodun, Rowland

Description

xvi, 371 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

African expressive cultures

Uniform Title

African expressive cultures.

Subject

• Ifa (Religion)
• Yoruba (African people) > Religion
• Divination
• Orisha religion
• Afro-Caribbean cults
• Ifa (Religion) > Art

Genre/Form

Art.

Note

• Papers from a conference held March 13-16, 2008 at Harvard University.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / His Royal Highness Oba Okunade Sijuade Olubuse II -- Preface / Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun -- Introduction / Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun with Niyi Afolabi -- Ifa orature: its interpretation and translation -- Ayajo as Ifa in mythical and sacred contexts / Ayo Opefeyitimi -- Continuity and change in the verbal, artistic, ritualistic, and performance traditions of Ifa divination / Wande Abimbọla -- Recasting Ifa : historicity and recursive recollection in ifa divination texts / Andrew Apter -- Ifa, knowledge, performance, the sacred, and the medium / Olasope O. Oyelaran -- "Writing" and "reference" in Ifa / Adéléke Adé̳èk̳ó -- Ifa as knowledge : theoretical questions and concerns -- Ifa : sixteen odu, sixteen questions / Barry Hallen -- Kin n'ifa wi? : philosophical issues in Ifa divination / Olufemi Taiwo -- Diviner as explorer : the Afuwape paradigm / Rowland O. Abiodun -- "The hunter thinks the monkey is not wise. the monkey is wise, but has its own logic" : -- Multiple divination systems and multiple knowledge systems in Yoruba religious life / Mei-Mei Sanford -- Dagbon, Oyo, Kongo : critical and comparative reflections on sacrifice / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Ifa : the quintessential builder of our bank of images / Akinwumi Isola -- Odu imole : Islamic tradition in Ifa and the Yoruba religious imagination / Jacob K. Olupona -- Ifa in the Afro-Atlantic -- Ifa divination as sacred compass for reading self and world / Velma Love -- Itan odu oni : tales of strivers today / John Mason -- Orunmila's faithful dog : transmitting sacred knowledge in a Lucumi Orisha tradition / Joseph M. Murphy -- Mofa and the Oba : translation of Ifa epistemology in the Afro-Cuban dilogun / Ysamur M. Flores-Pena -- The pai-de-santo and the babalawo : religious interaction and ritual rearrangements within Orisha religion / Stefania Capone -- The role of women in the Ifa priesthood : inclusion versus exclusion / M. Ajisebo McElwaine Abimbola -- Transnational Ifa : the "readings of the year" and contemporary economies of Orisa knowledge / Kamari Maxine Clarke -- Sacred art in Ifa -- The creatures of Ifa / Philip M. Peek -- Of color, character, attributes, and values of Orunmila / Bolaji Campbell -- Signs, doors, and games : divination's dynamic visual canon / Laura S. Grillo -- Ifa : visual and sensorial aspects / Henry John Drewal -- Art, culture, and creativity : the representation of Ifa in Yoruba video films / Akintunde Akinyemi.

Call Number

Sc E 16-868

ISBN

• 9780253018823 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 025301882X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780253018908 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0253018900 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 025301896X
• 9780253018960
• 9780253018960 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015033418

OCLC

906656628

Title

Ifá divination, knowledge, power, and performance / edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun.

Publisher

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African expressive cultures

African expressive cultures.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951- editor.

Abiodun, Rowland, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-868