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"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."--Jacket.
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Art, African diaspora, African Art, Syncretism (Religion) in art, Mami Wata (African deity), Hybridity (Social sciences) and the arts, Cultural fusion and the arts, Art, african, Syncretism (religion), Mami wata (african deity), Mami wata (african deity)--art, Syncretism (religion) in art, N7763.m33 s23 2008, 704.9/489967Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Sacred waters: arts for Mami Wata and other divinities in Africa and the diaspora
2008, Indiana University Press
in English
0253351561 9780253351562
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