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Ọ̀ṣun across the waters : a Yoruba goddess in Africa and the Americas
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- Creator
- Joseph M. Murphy & Mei-Mei Sanford, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2001]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- x, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0253108632, 0253214599, 9780253339195, 9780253108630, 1282066102, 9780253214591, 9781282066106, 0253339197
- OCLC
- ocm50174758, ocm44972217
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Hidden power / Ọ̀ṣun the seventeenth Odú / Rowland Abiodun -- A river of many Tunns: polysemy of Ochún in Afro-Cuban tradition / Isabel Castellanos -- Òrìṣà Ọ̀ṣun: Yoruba sacred kingship and civil religion in Òṣogbo, Nigeria / Jacob K. Olupona -- Nesta cidade todo mundo é d'Oxum: in this city everyone is Oxum's / Ieda Machado Ribeiro dos Santos -- Mãe Menininha / Manuel Vega -- Yéyé Cachita: Ochún in a Cuban mirror / Joseph M. Murphy -- Osun and brass: an insight into Yoruba religious symbology / Cornelius O. Adepegba -- Overflowing with beauty: the Ochún alter in Lucumí aesthetic tradition / Ysamur Flores-Pẽna -- Authority and discourse in the Orin Ọdún Ọ̀ṣun / Diedre L. Badejo -- The bag of wisdom: Ọ̀ṣun and the origins of the Ifá divination / ʾWande Abimbola -- Ochun in the Bronx / George Brandon -- "What part of the river you're in": African American women in devotion to Òsun / Rachel Elizabeth Harding -- Ẹẹ́rìndínlógún: the seeing eyes of sacred shells and stones / David O. Ogungbile -- Mama Oxum: reflections of gender and sexuality in Brazilian Umbanda / Lindasy Hale -- An Oxum shelters children in São Paulo / Tânia Cypriano -- Living water: Ọ̀ṣun, Mami Wata, and Olókùn in the lives of four contemproary Nigerian Christian women / Mei-Mei Sandford -- Orchestrating water and the wind: Oshun's art in Atlantic context / Robert Farris Thompson