Sacred Waters - Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora

Informationen zum Autor Henry John Drewal is Evjue-Bascom Professor of Art History and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Klappentext Sacred Waters focuses on the arts, rituals, and religions associated with Mami Wata and other deities in Africa and its diasporas. Mami Wata, pidgin English for Mother Water, is a beautiful, seductive water spirit who brings wealth and good fortune to those she favors. Practices associated with winning her favor, widespread in West Africa and the Black Atlantic diaspora, are explored in 46 rich and perceptive essays by an international group of scholars and practitioners. This book addresses the diversity of belief and practice, audiences, gender, reception, hybridity, commodification, globalization, dispersal, and religious mutation of Mami Wata rituals. It includes more than 129 images and a supplemental DVD featuring nearly 500 images, several photographic essays, and film clips of performance/rituals, and music. As the first volume to probe the depth and scope of water deity arts and cultures, Sacred Waters is a definitive resource and landmark reference tool for readers in a wide range of academic disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction: Charting the Voyage 1. Mami Wata and the Sierra Leone Diamonds: Wealth and Enslavement in Men's Dreams and the State Economy2. Enchanted Rivers: True Stories about Water Spirits from the Niger Delta 3. Burumo Painting: Reflections of the Waterspirit World upon the Body of a Waterspirit-Carrying-Woman4. Water Spirits in Water-less Places: The Case of Madame Sabot5. Mami Wata, Mr. White, and the Sirens off Bar Beach: Spirits and Dangerous Consumption in the Nigerian Popular Press6. A Memoir of Mami Wata in Azumini7. Tale of the Achikobo: It's the Tail That Is Mine8. Mami Wata, Wealth-Owning Spirits, and Changing Economic Morals in West Africa9. Congolese Mami Wata: The Charm and Delusion of Modernity 10. Tafisula or the Mami Wata: A Mwondo Théâtre Production11. A Fish Out of Water: The Inland Migration of the Dona Fish to the Luapula Plateau, Zambia12. Abidjan Mamiwater and Aba Yaba: Two Profiles of Mami/Maame Water Priesthood in Ghana13. A Tribute to Mami Wata Vodun Supreme Chief Daagbo Hounon Houna14. The Laughing Vodou Goddess: A Photo-Essay 15. Mami Wata: The Goddess of Water and Beauty Lives 16. The Mami Wata Phenomenon: "Old Wine in New Skin"17. Mami Wata, Water Spirits, and Returners in and near the Igbo Culture Area18. Dada-Dreadlock-Hair: The Hidden Messages of Mammy Water in Southeastern Nigeria19. Mermaids and Mami Wata on Brassware from Old Calabar20. The Ejagham Interpretation of a Sculpture of Mami Wata21. Mami Watas, Miengu, and Mermaids: Water Spirits of Coastal Cameroon22. Water Spirits and Mermaids: The Copperbelt Chitapo 23. Mummy Wata Goes South: An Interview with a Zulu Devotee24. "Oh hurry to the river!" uMamlambo Models in the Eastern Cape, South Africa25. Mami Wata: The Slippery Mermaid Phenomenon26. Mammy Wata, Inc.27. Mami Wata: An Urban Presence or the Making of a Tradition in Benin City, Nigeria28. Mami Wata as a Christian Demon: The Eroticism of Forbidden Pleasures in Southern Ghana 29. Mami Wata: A Vanishing Art in Port Harcourt, Nigeria 30. Mermaids and End-Time Jezebels: New Tales from Old Calabar31. The Intersection of Evangelism, AIDS, and Mami Wata in Popular Music in Centrafrique32. The Role of Mammy Wata as an Agent for the Promotion of Ogoni National Identity33. Of Micro-hydros and Mami Wata: Rural Development Meets Mythological Reality34. The Bride of the Rain in North Africa35. Death of the Mermaid and Political Intrigue in the Indian Ocean36. Somewhere under Dan's Rainbow: Joseph Kossivi Ahiator's "India Spirits" in His Mami Wata Pantheon37. Inbetweeners: Mamiwata and the Hybridity of Contemporary African Art38. Jack Akpan's Mammy-Water39. The Creation and Consecration of a Mami Wata Sculpture40. Communicating with the Gods: An Altar Dedication to Mami Wat...

Product details

• Authors: Henry John Drewal
• Assisted by: Henry John Drewal (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2008
• EAN: 9780253351562
• ISBN: 978-0-253-35156-2
• No. of pages: 708
• Series: African Expressive Cultures; African Expressive Cultures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art