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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olupona, Jacob K. (Jacob Kẹhinde), 1951- editor.

Abiodun, Rowland, editor.

Series:

African expressive cultures.

African expressive cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ifa.

Yoruba (African people)--Religion.

Yoruba (African people).

Divination.

Orisha religion.

Afro-Caribbean religions.

Ifa--Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With essays from the most respected scholars in the field, the book makes a substantial contribution toward understanding Ifá and its role in contemporary Yoruba and diaspora cultures.

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 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.

Notes:

Papers from a conference held March 13-16, 2008 at Harvard University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-01890-0

0-253-01896-X

OCLC:

945376243