Africa's Ogun : : old world and new / / edited and with a new introduction by Sandra T. Barnes.

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Place / Publishing House:Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1997.
Year of Publication:1997
Edition:Second, expanded edition.
Language:English
Series:African systems of thought
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
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Table of 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.