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Africa's Ogun [electronic resource] : old world and new / edited and with a new introduction by Sandra T. Barnes.

Contributor(s): Series: African systems of thoughtPublication details: Bloomington [Ind.] : Indiana University Press, c1997.Edition: 2nd, expanded edDescription: 1 online resource (xxi, 389 p.) : ill., mapsISBN:
  • 9780253113818 (electronic bk.)
  • 0253113814 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Africa's Ogun.DDC classification:
  • 299/.63 20
LOC classification:
  • BL2480.Y6 A46 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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