| Edition |
Second, expanded edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
African systems of thought
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Africa's Ogun transformed : introduction to the second edition / Sandra T. Barnes -- 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. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 9, 2013). |
| Subject |
Ogun (Yoruba deity) -- Cult -- Africa, West.
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Ogun (Yoruba deity) -- Cult -- America.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Barnes, Sandra T.
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| ISBN |
9780253332516 |
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9780253113818 (electronic bk.) |
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