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Mami Wata : arts for water spirits in Africa and its diasporas

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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Additional Authors
  • Houlberg, Marilyn.
  • Fowler Museum at UCLA.
Description
227 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm
Subject
  • Mami Wata (African deity) > Art
  • Art, African
  • African diaspora
  • Syncretism (Religion) in art
  • Cultural fusion and the arts
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
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Columbia University Libraries