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| Note on Terminology and Orthography | |
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| Charting the Voyage | |
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| Mami Wata and the Sierra Leone Diamonds: Wealth and Enslavement in Men's Dreams and the State Economy | |
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| Enchanted Rivers: True Stories about Water Spirits from the Niger Delta | |
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| Burumo Painting: Reflections of the Waterspirit World upon the Body of a Waterspirit-Carrying-Woman | |
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| Water Spirits in Water-less Places: The Case of Madame Sabot | |
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| Mami Wata, Mr. White, and the Sirens off Bar Beach: Spirits and Dangerous Consumption in the Nigerian Popular Press | |
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| A Memoir of Mami Wata in Azumini | |
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| Tale of the Achikobo: It's the Tail That Is Mine | |
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| Mami Wata, Wealth-Owning Spirits, and Changing Economic Morals in West Africa | |
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| Congolese Mami Wata: The Charm and Delusion of Modernity | |
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| Tafisula or The Mami Wata: A Mwondo Theatre Production | |
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| A Fish Out of Water: The Inland Migration of the Dona Fish to the Luapula Plateau, Zambia | |
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| Abidjan Mamiwater and Aba Yaba: Two Profiles of Mami/Maame Water Priesthood in Ghana | |
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| A Tribute to Mami Wata Vodun Supreme Chief Daagbo Hounon Houna | |
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| The Laughing Vodou Goddess: A Photo-Essay | |
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| Mami Wata: The Goddess of Water and Beauty Lives | |
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| The Mami-Wata Phenomenon: "Old Wine in New Skin" | |
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| Mami Wata, Water Spirits, and Returners in and near the Igbo Culture Area | |
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| Dada-Dreadlock-Hair: The Hidden Messages of Mammy Water in Southeastern Nigeria | |
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| Mermaids and Mami Wata on Brassware from Old Calabar | |
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| The Ejagham Interpretation of a Sculpture of Mami Wata | |
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| Mami Watas, Miengu, and Mermaids: Water Spirits of Coastal Cameroon | |
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| Water Spirits and Mermaids: The Copperbelt Chitapo Brian Siegel | |
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| Mummy Wata Goes South: An Interview with a Zulu Devotee | |
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| "Oh hurry to the river!" uMamlambo Models in the Eastern Cape, South Africa | |
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| Mami Wata: The Slippery Mermaid Phenomenon | |
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| Mammy Wata, Inc | |
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| Mami Wata: An Urban Presence or the Making of a Tradition in Benin City, Nigeria | |
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| Mami Water as a Christian Demon: The Eroticism of Forbidden Pleasures in Southern Ghana | |
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| Mami Wata: A Vanishing Art in Port Harcourt, Nigeria | |
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| Mermaids and End-Time Jezebels: New Tales from Old Calabar | |
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| The Intersection of Evangelism, AIDS, and Mami Wata in Popular Music in Centrafrique | |
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| The Role of Mammy Wata as an Agent for the Promotion of Ogoni National Identity | |
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| Of Micro-hydros and Mami Wata: Rural Development Meets Mythological Reality | |
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| The Bride of the Rain in North Africa | |
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| Death of the Mermaid and Political Intrigue in the Indian Ocean | |
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| Somewhere under Dan's Rainbow: Joseph Kossivi Ahiator's "India Spirits" in His Mami Wata Pantheon | |
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| Inbetweeners: Mamiwata and the Hybridity of Contemporary African Art | |
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| Jack Akpan's Mammy-Water | |
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| The Creation and Consecration of a Mami Wata Sculpture | |
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| Communicating with the Gods: An Altar Dedication to Mami Wata | |
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| The Ever-Changing Face of Watramama in Suriname: A Water Goddess in Creolization since the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Saramaka Sea Gods | |
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| Arts for the Water Spirits of Haitian Vodou | |
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| Sodo, Haiti, 1997-2001: The Pilgrimage to Healing Waters - A Photo-Essay | |
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| Misterios: The Making of a Documentary as a Way of Exploring One's Own Faith | |
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| Mami Wata - "It's in the Blood": A Personal Journal of Ancestral Resurrection in the Aftermath of Slavery | |
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| List of References | |
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| List of Illustrations and Other Media | |
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| Index | |