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Ifá divination, knowledge, power, and performance

Title
Ifá divination, knowledge, power, and performance [electronic resource] / edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun.
Publication
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951-
  • Abiodun, Rowland.
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 371 pages)
Series Statement
African expressive cultures
Uniform Title
  • Ifá divination, knowledge, power, and performance (Online)
  • African expressive cultures.
Subject
  • Ifa (Religion)
  • Yoruba (African people) > Religion
  • Divination
  • Orisha religion
  • Afro-Caribbean cults
  • Ifa (Religion) > Art
Note
  • Papers from a conference held March 13-16, 2008 at Harvard University.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2015033418
OCLC
ssj0001630728
Title
Ifá divination, knowledge, power, and performance [electronic resource] / edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun.
Imprint
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Series
African expressive cultures
African expressive cultures.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951-
Abiodun, Rowland.
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