Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diaspora

Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2008. Softcover. Bright blue wraps with color illustration and white and yellow lettering; French flaps; 227 pp. with numerous color illustrations, numbered by chapter. VG- with pencil markings inside front cover. Item #111459
ISBN: 9780974872995

Mami Wata, meaning Mother Water, is usually a woman, though she sometimes manifests as a man, and she is often accompanied by male consorts. She also merges with Muslim Christian, and HIndu imagery and practice. It is rare in African expression to find a phenomenon with such a long and global history, reflecting erarly comunication between Africa and the rest of the world. Lavishly illustrated with examples of Mami Wata images.

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