Mami Wata

Author : Henry John Drewal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0974872997

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Mami Wata by Henry John Drewal Pdf

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 practics. She can bring good fortune in the form of money, and her power increased between the fifteenth and twentieth 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 honoring 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.

Author : Mami Wata
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781984860415

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AFROSURF by Mami Wata Pdf

Discover the untold story of African surf culture in this glorious and colorful collection of profiles, essays, photographs, and illustrations. AFROSURF is the first book to capture and celebrate the surfing culture of Africa. This unprecedented collection is compiled by Mami Wata, a Cape Town surf company that fiercely believes in the power of African surf. Mami Wata brings together its co-founder Selema Masekela and some of Africa's finest photographers, thinkers, writers, and surfers to explore the unique culture of eighteen coastal countries, from Morocco to Somalia, Mozambique, South Africa, and beyond. Packed with over fifty essays, AFROSURF features surfer and skater profiles, thought pieces, poems, photos, illustrations, ephemera, recipes, and a mini comic, all wrapped in an astounding design that captures the diversity and character of Africa. A creative force of good in their continent, Mami Wata sources and manufactures all their wares in Africa and works with communities to strengthen local economies through surf tourism. With this mission in mind, Mami Wata is donating 100% of their proceeds to support two African surf therapy organizations, Waves for Change and Surfers Not Street Children.

Author : Mama Zogbé
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780615179360

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Mami Wata: Africa's Ancient God/dess Unveiled Vol. I by Mama Zogbé Pdf

This first definitive work on the predomiance of this powerful African deity throughout the ancient world has quickly become a "cult" classic. The evolution of Mami Wata in establishing, shaping and expanding the spiritual and sacerdotal foundation of world religion, reveals also the lost but glorious past of African women's spirituality. Hailed as the new "bible" on the history of African women, this comprehensive well-researched body of work will benefit academics, students, and all who are seeking to fill the missing void in world religious and cultural history. Totaling over 800 pages, it is reccomended that both heavily illustrated (Volumes I & II) be purchased as a set.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1838194312

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IN SEARCH OF MAMI WATA by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mama Zogbé
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780971624566

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The Sibyls by Mama Zogbé Pdf

What is now currently the 'holy seat of the Vatican' in Italy, was originally the sacerdotal seat of these ancient black Sibyl Queen Mothers. Centuries before for Christ, they were known to heal the sick, restore dignity and strength to the weak, and restore sight to the blind. They were famous for curing lameness, epileptics, deaf mutes and lepers. They were said to 'cast out demons' and even to 'raise-up the dead' Their prophecies are the oldest and most authentic in the world. They were the basis for Greek and Roman tragedies and plays. More astonishing, their prophetic books were later collected by the Roman authorities, who needed a 'western theological' foundation in order to compete with the powerful levitical Jews. These Sibyl prophecies soon became the sole and undisputed precursor to the western, Christian Bible. .

Author : Kath Lock,Frances Kelly
Publisher : Magic Bean
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 1863742166

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Mami Wata by Kath Lock,Frances Kelly Pdf

Mami Wata, goddess of water, is from the oral tradition of Ghana. Woman and children on the west coast of Africa often look to her for protection, and this is the story of one such girl, who was helped by Mami Wata.

Author : Mama Zogbé
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Vodou
ISBN : 0971624585

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Origins of the Vodoun Religion in America by Mama Zogbé Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Fulmer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754655377

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Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin by Jacqueline Fulmer Pdf

Focusing on the lineage of pivotal African American and Irish women writers, Jaqueline Fulmer argues that these authors often employ strategies of indirection, by way of expressions of folklore, when exploring unpopular topics, to attract readers who would otherwise reject the subject matter.

Author : Mary Jo Arnoldi,Kris L. Hardin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253116635

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African Material Culture by Mary Jo Arnoldi,Kris L. Hardin Pdf

"This volume has much to recommend it -- providing fascinating and stimulating insights into many arenas of material culture, many of which still remain only superficially explored in the archaeological literature." -- Archaeological Review "... a vivid introduction to the topic.... A glimpse into the unique and changing identities in an ever-changing world." -- Come-All-Ye Fourteen interdisciplinary essays open new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the contextualized study of objects, treating everything from the production of material objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clothing, and the television set in the contemporary repertoire of African material culture.

Author : Gordon Collier,Ulrich Fleischmann
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9042009284

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A Pepper-pot of Cultures by Gordon Collier,Ulrich Fleischmann Pdf

The terms 'creole' and 'creolization' have witnessed a number of significant semantic changes in the course of their history. Originating in the vocabulary associated with colonial expansion in the Americas it had been successively narrowed down to the field of black American culture or of particular linguistic phenomena. Recently 'creole' has expanded again to cover the broad area of cultural contact and transformation characterizing the processes of globalization initiated by the colonial migrations of past centuries. The present volume is intended to illustrate these various stages either by historical and/or theoretical discussion of the concept or through selected case studies. The authors are established scholars from the areas of literature, linguistics and cultural studies; they all share a lively and committed interest in the Caribbean area - certainly not the only or even oldest realm in which processes of creolization have shaped human societies, but one that offers, by virtue of its history of colonialization and cross-cultural contact, its most pertinent example. The collection, beyond its theoretical interest, thus also constitutes an important survey of Caribbean studies in Europe and the Americas. As well as searching overview essays, there are - sociolinguistic contributions on the linguistic geography of 'criollo' in Spanish America, the Limonese creole speakers of Costa Rica, 'creole' language and identity in the Netherlands Antilles and the affinities between Papiamentu and Chinese in Curaçao - ethnohistorical examinations of such topics as creole transgression in the Dominican/Haitian borderland, the Haitian Mandingo and African fundamentalism, creolization and identity in West-Central Jamaica, Afro-Nicaraguans and national identity, and the Creole heritage of Haiti - studies of religion and folk culture, including voodoo and creolization in New York City, the creolization of the "Mami Wata" water spirit, and signifyin(g) processes in New World Anancy tales - a group of essays focusing on the thought of Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, and the Créolité writers and case-studies of artistic expression, including creole identities in Caribbean women's writing, Port-au-Prince in the Haitian novel, Cynthia McLeod and Astrid Roemer and Surinamese fiction, Afro-Cuban artistic expression, and metacreolization in the fiction of Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson.

Author : Linda Austern,Inna Naroditskaya
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253112079

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Music of the Sirens by Linda Austern,Inna Naroditskaya Pdf

Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography.

Author : Elizabeth Allo Isichei
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1580461794

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Voices of the Poor in Africa by Elizabeth Allo Isichei Pdf

An ambitious new approach to African studies, utilizing indigenous sources to bring back the voices of the native Africans in their own words rather than that of colonizers and foreigners. Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and the poetics of memory -- an approach different from the quantitative and demographic studies which have transformed the subject over the past twenty years. To this and to her study of popular consciousness in the colony and postcolony, she brings together a wide range of disciplines -- ethnography, art and art history, and contemporary literary theory among them -- to look at the intellectual history of Africa, from African rather than European premises. The result is a history of popular consciousness which shows the experiences of ordinary people, often in protest to an ongoing experience of exploitation. Elizabeth Isichei is Professor of Religious Studies, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand and author of over a dozen books on African history and religion. She holds an Oxford doctorate, and aD.Litt from the University of Canterbury, and is a fellow of the Royal Society [N.Z.]

Author : Petra Wittke-Rüdiger,Konrad Gross
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9789042025967

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Translation of Cultures by Petra Wittke-Rüdiger,Konrad Gross Pdf

The contributors to this collection approach the subject of the translation of cultures from various angles. Translation refers to the rendering of texts from one language into another and the shift between languages under precolonial (retelling/transcreation), colonial (domestication), and postcolonial (multilingual trafficking) conditions.

Author : Fredric Jameson,Masao Miyoshi
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cultural relations
ISBN : 0822321696

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The Cultures of Globalization by Fredric Jameson,Masao Miyoshi Pdf

A pervasive force, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. Here an international panel of intellectuals consider the process of globalization and how the global character of technology, communication networks, consumer culture, intellectual discourse, the arts, and mass entertainment have all been affected by recent worldwide trends. Photos.

Author : Judith Ann-Marie Byfield,LaRay Denzer,Anthea Morrison
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : 9780253354167

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Gendering the African Diaspora by Judith Ann-Marie Byfield,LaRay Denzer,Anthea Morrison Pdf

"This volume builds on and extends current discussions of the construction of gendered identities and the networks through which men and women engage diaspora. It considers the movement of people and ideas between the Caribbean and the Nigerian hinterland. The contributions examine Africa in the Caribbean imaginary, the way in which gender ideologies inform Caribbean men's and women's theoretical or real-life engagement with the continent, and the interactions and experiences of Caribbean travelers in Africa and Europe. The contributions are linked as well through empire, discussing different parts of the British Empire and allowing for the comparative examination of colonial policies and practices."--Back cover.