Africa's Ogun : old world and new
Record details
- ISBN: 9780253210838
- ISBN: 0253210836
- ISBN: 9780253332516
- ISBN: 0253332516
- ISBN: 9780585357041
- ISBN: 0585357048
- ISBN: 0253113814
- ISBN: 9780253113818
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxi, 389 pages) : illustrations, maps.
remote - Edition: 2nd, expanded ed.
- Publisher: Bloomington [Ind.] : Indiana University Press, ©1997.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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