Research Catalog

Title

Mami Wata : arts for water spirits in Africa and its diasporas / Henry John Drewal ; with contributions by Marilyn Houlberg [and others].

Author

Drewal, Henry John.

Publication

Los Angeles : Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Houlberg, Marilyn.
• Fowler Museum at UCLA.

Description

227 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• African diaspora
• Art, African
• Cultural fusion and the arts
• Mami Wata (African deity) > Art
• Syncretism (Religion) in art

Note

• Issued in connection with an exhibition held Apr. 6-July 28, 2008, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Sources and Currents / Henry John Drewal -- Pt. 1. Mami Wata in a Cultural Context -- Ch. 1. Jolly Masquerades and Mammy Wata in Sierra Leone / John W. Nunley -- Ch. 2. Mami in Baule, Guro, and Yaure Arts and Cultures / Henry John Drewal -- Ch. 3. Dreamscapes: Sacred Arts for Mami Wata along the Togo-Benin Coast / Henry John Drewal -- Ch. 4. The Bourian Masquerade: A Rite of Memory and Identity / Henry John Drewal -- Ch. 5. The Many Manifestations of Mami Wata among the Igbo / Henry John Drewal -- Ch. 6. Mammy Wata among the Annang Ibibio / Jill Salmons -- Ch. 7. Mami Wata/Mamba Muntu Paintings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Bogumil Jewsiewicki -- Ch. 8. Surfing Mami's Virtual Watas: Mami Wata Resources on the Internet / Amy L. Noell -- Pt. 2. Mami's Sisters in the African Atlantic -- Ch. 9. Water Spirits of Haitian Vodou: Lasiren, Queen of Mermaids / Marilyn Houlberg -- Ch. 10. Santa Marta la Dominadora - Afro-Catholic Saint and Dominican Vodu Power / Henry John Drewal -- Ch. 11. Celebrating Salt and Sweet Waters: Yemanja and Oxum in Bahia, Brazil / Henry John Drewal -- Pt. 3. Mami Inspirations -- Ch. 12. Mami as Artists' Muse / Henry John Drewal.

ISBN

• 9780974872995
• 0974872997

LCCN

• 2007051974
• 99821484589

OCLC

• 185021608
• ocn185021608
• SCSB-5415344

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries