Works Citied

Articles

1. Cole, Herbert. "Secular Arts of Voluntary Organizations." The Arts of Ghana (1977): 170-199.

2. Drewal, Henry John. "Mami Wata Shrines: Exotica and the Construction of Self." African Material Culture (1996): 308-332.

3. Gore, Charles. "Practice and Agency in Mammy Wata Worship in Southern Nigeria." African Arts (1997): 60-69.

4. Rush, Dana. "Eternal Potential Chromolithographs in Vodunland." Arican Arts (1999): 61-75.

5. Salmons, Jill. "Mammy Wata." Mammy Water Group in a Canoe (1990): 8-15.

6. Wintrob, Ronald. "Mammy Water: Folk Beliefs and Psychotic Elaborations in Liberia." Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal 15(1970): 143-157.

Books

1. Jenkins, Della. The Art of Mamy Wata: A popular Water Spirit Found Among the Igbo of Southeast Nigeria. 1st Ed. Santa Barbara: University of California, 1985.

2. Landau, Paul, Deborah D. Kaspin. Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa.1st Ed. Los Angeles: University of California     Press, 2002. (Drewal 193-232)

3. Olupona, Jacob. African Spirituality. 1. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2000. (Wicker 198-222)

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