Africa's Ogun, Second, Expanded Edition: Old World and New

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations vii Preface ix A Note on Orthography xi Africa's Ogun Transformed: Introduction to the Second Edition xiii Sandra T. Barnes 1 The Many Faces of Ogun: Introduction to the First Edition 1 Sandra T. Barnes PART ONE: The History and Spread of Ogun in Old and New Worlds 2 The Etymology of the Word \\Ogun" 29 Robert G. Armstrong 3 Ogun, the Empire Builder 39 Sandra T. Barnes and Paula Girshick Ben-Amos 4 Systematic Remembering, Systematic Forgetting: Ogou in Haiti 65 Karen McCarthy Brown 5 Ogum and the Umbandista Religion 90 Renato Ortiz PART TWO: The Meaning of Ogun in Ritual, Myth, and Art 6 The Dreadful God and the Divine King John Pemberton III 105 vi Contents 7 A Portrait of Ogun as Reflected in Ijala Chants 147 Adeboye BabalQla 8 Ogun/s Iremoje: A Philosophy of Living and Dying 173 'Bade AjuwQn 9 Dancing for Ogun in Yorubaland and in Brazil 199 Margaret Thompson Drewal 10 Art or Accident: Yoruba Body Artists and Their Deity Ogun 235 Henry John Drewal PART THREE: Transformations of Ogun 11 A Comparative Analysis of Ogun in Precolonial Yorubaland 263 J. D. 'r:' Peel 12 Repossession: Ogun in Folklore and Literature 290 Donald J. Cosentino 13 Unveiling the Orisha 315 Philip Scher 14 Ogun and Body/Mind Potentiality: Yoruba Scarification and Painting Traditions in Africa and the Americas 332 Henry John Drewal and John Mason 15 6gun: Builder of the l.ukurni's House 353 John Mason Contributors 369 Index 373 ...