Author : William Russell Bascom
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0253206383
Ifa Divination by William Russell Bascom Pdf
"The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all students of African oral literature and Yoruba civilization, but also for future generations interested in the continuing vitality of Ifa divination and a Yoruba way of life and thought." —Henry Drewal This landmark study of Ifa, the most important and elaborate system of divination of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, remains a monumental contribution to scholarship in anthropology, folklore, religion, philosophy, linguistics, and African and African-American studies.