Africa's Ogun : old world and new /

Africa's Ogun : old world and new / edited and with a new introduction by Sandra T. Barnes. - 2a expanded ed. - Bloomington [Ind.] : Indiana University Press, c1997. - xxi, 389 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - African systems of thought .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The many faces of Ogun : introduction to the first edition / Sandra T. Barnes -- The etymology of the word "Ogun" / Robert G. Armstrong -- Ogun, the empire builder / Sandra T. Barnes and Paula Girshick Ben-Amos -- Systematic remembering, systematic forgetting : Ogou in Haiti / Karen McCarthy Brown -- Ogum and the Umbandista religion / Renato Ortiz -- The dreadful God and the divine king / John Pemberton III -- A portrait of Ogun as reflected in Ijala chants / Adeboye Babalola -- Ogun's Iremoje : a philosophy of living and dying / Bade Ajuwon -- Dancing for Ogun in Yorubaland and in Brazil / Margaret Thompson Drewal -- Art or accident : Yoruba body artists and their deity Ogun / Henry John Drewal -- A comparative analysis of Ogun in precolonial Yorubaland / J.D.Y. Peel -- Repossession : Ogun in folklore and literature / Donald J. Cosentino -- Unveiling the Orisha / Philip Scher -- Ogun and body/mind potentiality : Yoruba scarification and painting traditions in Africa and the Americas / Henry John Drewal and John Mason -- Ogun : builder of the Lukumi's house / John Mason.

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Ogun (Yoruba deity)--Cult--Africa, West.
Ogun (Yoruba deity)--Cult--America.
CEH
Coleccion Estudios Haitianos

110 BL 2480 / A258 1997

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