PDF-(BOOS)-Esu: Yoruba God, Power, and the Imaginative Frontiers (African World Series)

This is the most extensive book on Esu also known in different locations as Eleda Exu Cxu Eleggua Cxu Elegbara Legba Elegba Elegbera or Odara He is the divine messenger central to the understanding of Yoruba religion and worldview as well as their various manifestations and related orisa traditions in the African diasporasuch as Candomblé Vodou and SanteríaLukumiEsu and Ifa divination with all its sacred texts or Orunmila the god of divination rank as the most widespread and the most worshipped of all the deities Both Esu and IfaOrunmila hold the Yoruba cosmic system together Esu is now part of what some may label as the Black Atlantic religion part of the attempt to recover African religions in other lands as well as part of the use of religion for survival As the book points out in Esus ability to migrate to other lands he becomes part of transatlantic history but more so of the tension between relocation and history between the violence that led to the forced migrations of people and the long healing process of reconciliation with living in strange lands that later became new homelandsThis book is part of the African World Series edited by Toyin Falola Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities University of Texas at Austin. (ISSN 1948-6596) is the open access journal published by the International Biogeography Society (IBS; . http://www.biogeography.org. /).. Frontiers of Biogeography. is published quarterly and all content is available free online at . Introduction. In January 1938 workmen were digging foundations for a new house in . Wunmonije. Compound in the city of Ife, in what is now south-western Nigeria. While clearing away the topsoil they struck metal and further digging revealed a group of cast heads.. By: Carly Snyder. Catie Liu. Kelsey Barter. Nick Mitchell. Praneeth Gogineni. Ruben Ramirez. Industrialization and Economy. Ruben Ramirez and Praneeth Gogineni. Industrialization and the World Economy. Witchcraft as Modern. In the West, African beliefs in witchcraft are what make it primitive. Yet witchcraft (and anti-witchcraft medicine) is “modern”. Because it indexes social relations (envy), it increases with growth of social inequality (post-apartheid South Africa, 1920s Ghana during cocoa boom). West African Art Emphasizes…. Sculpture and the Human Form. Functionality. – . Art as a component of music, dance, ritual, social life.. Anthropomorphism . - . the attribution of human characteristics to animals, gods or non-living things.. G. I. N. A. T. I. O. N. Let’s Start!. According t0 the Oxford Dictionary, imagination means:. The faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses. Ife: Origins of Art and Civilization. Art consists of objects in Terracotta, Leaded Brass, & Stone. --objects date to 1000-500 BP (1000-1500AD). -art created for the ruling elite. Style elements:. In the Beginning. Portugal’s Prince Henry was looking for a sea route around Africa to India. West African Kingdoms had an abundance or gold and other resources. Small trading stations on Africa’s western coast. televisual. media. Ideology. We all have learned to look at the world according to the belief system that is part of the culture we were socialized into. ‘Unexamined presuppositions’. Morality. Beliefs about what is ‘natural’ or ‘true’ or ‘factual’. , . CULTURAL RETENTIONS . AND TRANSMISSIONS. BY. MOBOLANLE EBUNOLUWA SOTUNSA. BABCOCK UNIVERSITY, NIGERIA. VISITING SCHOLAR, AFRICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (UGA). D. elivered . at African Studies Institute, University of Georgia on October 3, 2013 . 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