An edition of Ifa divination, knowledge, power, and performance
(2016)
Ifa divination, knowledge, power, and performance
by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland Abiodun
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Ifa divination, knowledge, power, and performance
2016, Indiana University Press
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Table of Contents
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 Adéè̳kó̳
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.
Edition Notes
Papers from a conference held March 13-16, 2008 at Harvard University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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