Africa's Ogun, Old World and New, edited by Sandra T. Barnes and published by Indiana University Press in 1997, is an edited scholarly volume gathering essays on the Yoruba orisha Ogun, god of iron, war and technology, tracing his worship from West Africa across the Atlantic diaspora into Cuban, Brazilian and Haitian practice. Its strength is the range of specialist contributors it assembles rather than one author's single view, letting the volume show Ogun's worship as a living tradition that took different shape in each place it traveled rather than one fixed cult exported unchanged. Its limit is exactly that multiplicity, an edited volume gives no single unified argument about Ogun, so a claim about a specific regional practice, Yoruba, Cuban or Brazilian, should be traced to the particular essay addressing that tradition rather than cited to the collection as a whole.
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Published by Indiana University Press as an edited scholarly volume on the Yoruba deity Ogun, its essays assembled and reviewed by an academic editor. NotesEdited scholarly volume on the Yoruba orisha Ogun in Africa and the diaspora.
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AuthorSandra T. Barnes (editor)
PublisherIndiana University Press
Publication Year1997
Source TypeEdited volume
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Source Africa's Ogun: Old World and NewSandra T. Barnes (editor)
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This source backs 40 claims across the atlas. As facts: 31 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 2 connected. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Articles, 13 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 connected, 3 general references.
- Deities, 13 claims: 12 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Figures, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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