Ifa divination, knowledge, power, and performance /

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Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	African expressive cultures African expressive cultures.
Subject:	Ifa (Religion) Yoruba (African people) -- Religion. Divination. Orisha religion. Afro-Caribbean cults. Ifa (Religion) -- Art. Afro-Caribbean cults. Divination. Ifa (Religion) Orisha religion. Yoruba (African people) -- Religion. Art.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11756009

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Other authors / contributors:	Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951- editor. Abiodun, Rowland, editor.
ISBN:	9780253018960 025301896X 9780253018823 025301882X 9780253018908 0253018900
Notes:	Papers from a conference held March 13-16, 2008 at Harvard University. Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 22, 2016).
Summary:	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 ̀and If ̀divination from the perspectives of philosophy, performance studies, and cultural studies. They also examine the sacred context, verbal art, and the interpretation of If ̀texts and philosophy. With essays from the most respected scholars in the field, the book makes a substantial contribution toward understanding If ̀and its role in contemporary Yoruba and diaspora cultures.
Other form:	Print version: Ifa divination, knowledge, power, and performance. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016] African expressive cultures 9780253018823

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.

Ifa divination, knowledge, power, and performance /

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