04683nam 2200721 450 991046599940332120200520144314.00-253-01890-00-253-01896-X(CKB)3710000000614625(EBL)4452959(OCoLC)945376243(SSID)ssj0001630728(PQKBManifestationID)16377995(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001630728(PQKBWorkID)14071606(PQKB)11449141(MiAaPQ)EBC4452959(MdBmJHUP)muse52885(Au-PeEL)EBL4452959(CaPaEBR)ebr11175563(CaONFJC)MIL906611(EXLCZ)99371000000061462520150827h20162016 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIfa divination, knowledge, power, and performance /edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. AbiodunBloomington :Indiana University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (390 p.)African expressive culturesPapers from a conference held March 13-16, 2008 at Harvard University.0-86159-105-4 0-253-01882-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Adé©æèk©æó-- 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.African expressive cultures.Ifa (Religion)Yoruba (African people)ReligionDivinationOrisha religionAfro-Caribbean cultsIfa (Religion)ArtElectronic books.Ifa (Religion)Yoruba (African people)Religion.Divination.Orisha religion.Afro-Caribbean cults.Ifa (Religion)299.6/8333Olupona Jacob K(Jacob Kẹhinde),1951-Abiodun RowlandMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465999403321Ifa divination, knowledge, power, and performance2457107UNINA