Ifa divination, knowledge, power, and performance

Ifa divination, knowledge, power, and performance / edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun.

This landmark volume compiled by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun brings readers into the diverse world of If-̀its discourse, ways of thinking, and artistic expression as manifested throughout the Afro-Atlantic. Firmly rooting If ̀within African religious traditions, the essays consider If ̀a...

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Other Authors: Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951- (Editor), Abiodun, Rowland (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Series:African expressive cultures.
Subjects:
Ifa.
Yoruba (African people) > Religion.
Divination.
Orisha religion.
Afro-Caribbean religions.
Ifa > Art.
divination.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
PERFORMING ARTS > General.
Afro-Caribbean cults
Divination
Ifa (Religion)
Orisha religion
Yoruba (African people) > Religion
Art
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Oba Okunade Sijuade Olubuse II
  • Preface / Jacob K. Olupona, Rowland O. Abiodun
  • Introduction / Jacob K. Olupona, Rowland O. Abiodun with Niyi Afolabi
  • PART I. Ifá Orature: Its Interpretation and Translation.
  • Ayajo as Ifá in mythical and sacred contexts / Ayo Opefeyitimi
  • Continuity and change in the verbal, artistic, ritualistic, and performance traditions of Ifá divination / Wándé Abimbọ́lá
  • Recasting Ifá : historicity and recursive recollection in Ifá divination texts / Andrew Apter
  • Ifá, knowledge, performance, the sacred, and the medium / Olasope O. Oyelaran
  • Writing and reference in Ifá / Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́
  • PART II. Ifá as Knowledge : Theoretical Questions and Concerns.
  • Ifá : sixteen odù, sixteen questions / Barry Hallen
  • Kín n'ifá wi? : philosophical issues in Ifá divination / Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
  • 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 Yorùbá religious life / Mei-Mei Sanford
  • Dagbon, Oyo, Kongo : critical and comparative reflections on sacrifice / Wyatt MacGaffey
  • Ifá : the quintessential builder of our bank of images / Akínwùmí Ìṣọla
  • Odù imole : Islamic tradition in Ifá and the Yorùbá religious imagination / Jacob K. Olupona
  • PART III. Ifá in the Afro-Atlantic.
  • Ifá divination as sacred compass for reading self and world / Velma Love
  • Ìtan odù òní : tales of strivers today / John Mason
  • Orunmila's faithful dog : transmitting sacred knowledge in a Lucumí Orisha tradition / Joseph M. Murphy
  • Mofá and the Oba : translation of Ifá epistemology in the Afro-Cuban dilogún / Ysamur M. Flores-Peña
  • The pai-de-santo and the babaláwo : religious interaction and ritual rearrangements within Orisha religion / Stefania Capone
  • The role of women in the Ifá priesthood : inclusion versus exclusion / M. Ajisebo McElwaine Abimbola
  • Transnational Ifá : the "readings of the year" and contemporary economies of Orisa knowledge / Kamari Maxine Clarke
  • PART IV. Sacred Art In Ifá.
  • The creatures of Ifá / 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
  • Ifá : visual and sensorial aspects / Henry John Drewal
  • Art, culture, and creativity : the representation of Ifá in Yorùbá video films / Akintunde Akinyemi.

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