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Carte Mami Wata Henry John Drewal

Mami Wata

Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas

Autor: Henry John Drewal
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S.
Disponibilitate: șansă 50%
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134.36 lei
This book traces the visual cultures and histories of Mami Wata and other African water divinities....

Informații despre carte

Autor
Henry John Drewal
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2008
Pagini
228
EAN
9780974872995
ISBN
0974872997
Enbook ID
04949206
Editura
Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S.
Greutate
477
Dimensiuni
229 x 254

Descriere completă

This book traces the visual cultures and histories of Mami Wata and other African water divinities. Mami Wata, often portrayed with the head and torso of a woman and the tail of a fish, is at once beautiful, jealous, generous, seductive, and potentially deadly. A water spirit widely known across Africa and the African diaspora, her origins are said to lie 'overseas', although she has been thoroughly incorporated into local beliefs and practices. She can bring good fortune in the form of money, and her power increased between the 15th and 20th centuries, the era of growing international trade between Africa and the rest of the world. Her name, which may be translated as 'Mother Water' or 'Mistress Water', is pidgin English, a language developed to lubricate trade.Africans forcibly carried across the Atlantic as part of that 'trade' brought with them their beliefs and practices honouring Mami Wata and other ancestral deities. Henry John Drewal is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of African and African Diaspora Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Other contributors include Marilyn Houlberg, Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Amy L. Noell, John W. Nunley, and Jill Salmons.

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