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Indigeneity in African religions : Ọza worldviews, cosmologies and religious cultures / Afe Adogame.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adogame, Afeosemime U. (Afeosemime Unuose), 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Edo-speaking peoples--Nigeria, Southwest--Religion.
- Edo-speaking peoples.
- Edo-speaking peoples--Nigeria, Southwest--Rites and ceremonies.
- Ozo (African people)--Nigeria, Southwest--Religion.
- Ozo (African people).
- Ozo (African people)--Nigeria, Southwest--Rites and ceremonies.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Religion.
- Africa--Religious life and customs.
- Africa.
- Southwest Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half-title Page
- Dedication Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Preface
- 1 Decolonizing history, memory and method
- Encumbering historiography: Africa as object, Africa as subject
- Remembering and forgetting: The politics of memory
- Decolonizing from my locationality and positionality
- Engaging the decolonizing discourse
- Unmasking indigeneity
- The road map
- 2 Historical origins, migration narratives, relationship with neighbours
- Myths of historical origins and migration narratives
- Ọza land tenure system
- Ọza and its neighbours: A precarious proximity
- Ọza people and Ilẹmẹ (Unẹmẹ-Osu)
- Ọza during the Nupe invasion and hegemony in the nineteenth century
- Ọza under Benin and Yoruba hegemonies
- 3 World views, religious cosmologies, spiritual agency
- Ritual roles and special functionaries
- Divination and healing
- Empowering words, ritual prohibitions and taboos
- 4 Genealogies of kinship and sacral kingship
- Myth and sacral kingship
- Women, ritual power and sacral kingship
- Feminine ingenuity: The sacrality and aesthetics of Ẹrẹma pottery making
- Negotiating Ọza indigenous polity under a coloniality of power
- 5 Kingship myth, leadership succession and legal imbroglios (1991-2011)
- 6 Rituals of passage
- Rituals of childbirth
- From Osokuru to Osọ: Transitional rituals towards adulthood
- The rites of marriage
- Iruvie Imumi
- Rituals of Iregu: Death
- 7 Gendering rituals
- Ukpe Ọza (Ọza annual festival)
- Ibishika
- Ọza musical cultures
- The marriage ceremony
- Post-marriage rituals
- 8 The future of Ọza indigeneity in the face of African modernity
- Negotiating Nupenization, Yorubanization, Christianization and colonial modernity
- Reconfiguring rituals
- The interplay of mission Christianity, colonial education and indigenous knowledge production
- Notes
- 7 Gendering rituals
- 8 The future of Ọza indigeneity in the face of African modernity
- Oral Sources
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Images
- Copyright Page
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Adogame, Afe Indigeneity in African Religions
- ISBN:
- 9781350008274
- 1350008273
- 1350008281
- 9781350008281
- Publisher Number:
- 99989363154
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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