Ifa divination, knowledge, power, and performance
By: edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun
Series: African expressive cultures; African expressive cultures
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253018823; 9780253018908; 9780253018960
Subjects: Yoruba (African people); Ifa (Religion); Orisha religion; Art; Religion; Afro-Caribbean cults; Divination
Notes: Papers from a conference held March 13-16, 2008 at Harvard University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / His Royal Highness Oba Okunade Sijuade Olubuse II; title: Preface / Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun; title: Introduction / Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun with Niyi Afolabi; title: Ifa orature: its interpretation and translation; title: Ayajo as Ifa in mythical and sacred contexts / Ayo Opefeyitimi; title: Continuity and change in the verbal, artistic, ritualistic, and performance traditions of Ifa divination / Wande Abimbọla; title: Recasting Ifa : historicity and recursive recollection in ifa divination texts / Andrew Apter; title: Ifa, knowledge, performance, the sacred, and the medium / Olasope O. Oyelaran; title: "Writing" and "reference" in Ifa / Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳; title: Ifa as knowledge : theoretical questions and concerns; title: Ifa : sixteen odu, sixteen questions / Barry Hallen; title: Kin n'ifa wi? : philosophical issues in Ifa divination / Olufemi Taiwo; title: Diviner as explorer : the Afuwape paradigm / Rowland O. Abiodun; title: "The hunter thinks the monkey is not wise. the monkey is wise, but has its own logic" :; title: Multiple divination systems and multiple knowledge systems in Yoruba religious life / Mei-Mei Sanford; title: Dagbon, Oyo, Kongo : critical and comparative reflections on sacrifice / Wyatt MacGaffey; title: Ifa : the quintessential builder of our bank of images / Akinwumi Isola; title: Odu imole : Islamic tradition in Ifa and the Yoruba religious imagination / Jacob K. Olupona; title: Ifa in the Afro-Atlantic; title: Ifa divination as sacred compass for reading self and world / Velma Love; title: Itan odu oni : tales of strivers today / John Mason; title: Orunmila's faithful dog : transmitting sacred knowledge in a Lucumi Orisha tradition / Joseph M. Murphy; title: Mofa and the Oba : translation of Ifa epistemology in the Afro-Cuban dilogun / Ysamur M. Flores-Pena; title: The pai-de-santo and the babalawo : religious interaction and ritual rearrangements within Orisha religion / Stefania Capone; title: The role of women in the Ifa priesthood : inclusion versus exclusion / M. Ajisebo McElwaine Abimbola; title: Transnational Ifa : the "readings of the year" and contemporary economies of Orisa knowledge / Kamari Maxine Clarke; title: Sacred art in Ifa; title: The creatures of Ifa / Philip M. Peek; title: Of color, character, attributes, and values of Orunmila / Bolaji Campbell; title: Signs, doors, and games : divination's dynamic visual canon / Laura S. Grillo; title: Ifa : visual and sensorial aspects / Henry John Drewal; title: Art, culture, and creativity : the representation of Ifa in Yoruba video films / Akintunde Akinyemi.