Africa's Ogun : old world and new / edited and with a new introduction by Sandra T. Barnes.
Material type: TextSeries: African systems of thoughtPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1997Edition: Second, expanded editionDescription: 1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780253113818 (ebook)
- 299/.63 20
- BL2480.Y6 A46 1997eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Africa's Ogun transformed : introduction to the second edition / Sandra T. Barnes -- The many faces of Ogun : introduction to the first edition / Sandra T. Barnes -- The etymology of the word "Ògún" / Robert G. Armstrong -- Ogun, the empire builder / Sandra T. Barnes and Paula Girshick Ben-Amos -- Systematic remembering, systematic forgetting : Ogou in Haiti / Karen McCarthy Brown -- Ogum and the Umbandista religion / Renato Ortiz -- The dreadful God and the divine king / John Pemberton III -- A portrait of Ogun as reflected in Ijala chants / Adeboye Babalola -- Ogun's Iremoje : a philosophy of living and dying / Bade Ajuwon -- Dancing for Ogun in Yorubaland and in Brazil / Margaret Thompson Drewal -- Art or accident : Yoruba body artists and their deity Ogun / Henry John Drewal -- A comparative analysis of Ogun in precolonial Yorubaland / J.D.Y. Peel -- Repossession : Ogun in folklore and literature / Donald J. Cosentino -- Unveiling the Orisha / Philip Scher -- Ogun and body/mind potentiality : Yoruba scarification and painting traditions in Africa and the Americas / Henry John Drewal and John Mason -- Ògún : builder of the Lùkùmí's house / John Mason.
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