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

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 1997
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Disciplina: 299/.63
• Soggetto topico: Ogun (Yoruba deity) - Cult - Africa, West; Ogun (Yoruba deity) - Cult - America
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BarnesSandra T
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: The second edition of this landmark work is enhanced by new chapters on Ogun worship in the New World. From reviews of the first edition:""... an ethnographically rich contribution to the historical understanding of West African culture, as well as an exploration of the continued vitality of that culture in the changing environments of the Americas."" -African Studies Review""... leav[es] the reader with a sense of the vitality, dynamism, and complexity of Ogun and the cultural contexts in which he thrives.... magnificent contribution to the literature on Ogun, Yoruba
• Titolo autorizzato: Africa's Ogun
• ISBN: 0-253-11381-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451870803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: African Systems of Thought