Sabine Jell-Bahlsen, The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2008), xiv + 433 pp., $34.95 (cloth), ISBN: 1-59221-482-7.
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https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v6i4.527Keywords:
lake goddess, cult, iconographyReferences
Carwile, Christey. 2008. ‘Review of Sabine Jell-Bahlsen, The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake’, African Studies Review 53.3: 172.
Drewal, Henry John (ed.). 2008. Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press).
Jehl-Bahlsen, Sabine. 1985 ‘From Divine Earth–Divine Water to Mami Wata: Or Learning to Translate Field Experience into Film’, Anthropologia Visualis 1.1: 53-59.
———. 1989/1991. Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits of Nigeria (York: Ogbuide Films, distributed by University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, 1989; and by www.berkeley.com, 1991).
———. 1995. ‘The Concept of Mammy Water in Flora Nwapa’s Novels’, Research in African Literatures 26.2: 30-41.
———. 1997. ‘Eze Mmiri di Egwu—“The Water Monarch is Awesome”: Reconsidering the Mammy Water Myths’, in Flora Kaplan (ed.), Queens, Queen Mothers, Priestesses and Power: Case Studies in African Gender (New York: New York Academy of Sciences): 103-33.
———. 1998a. ‘Female Power: Water Priestesses of the Oru-Igbo’, in Obiama Nnaemeka (ed.), Sisterhood, Feminisms, and Power (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press): 101-32.
———. 1998b. ‘Flora Nwapa and Uhammiri/Ogbuibe Eze Nwanyi, the Lake Goddess’, in Marie Umeh (ed.), Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa (Trenton NJ: Africa World Press): 77-110.
———. 2000. ‘The Lake Goddess, Uhammiri/Ogbuide, Eze Nwanyi: A Case Study of the Female Side of the Universe in Igbo Cosmology’, in Jacob K. Olupona and Charles H. Long (eds.), African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings and Expressions (New York: Crossroads): 38-53.
———. 2008. ‘Dada-Dreadlock Hair: The Hidden Messages of Mammy Water in Southeastern Nigeria’, in Henry John Drewal (ed.), Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press): 245-57.
Drewal, Henry John (ed.). 2008. Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press).
Jehl-Bahlsen, Sabine. 1985 ‘From Divine Earth–Divine Water to Mami Wata: Or Learning to Translate Field Experience into Film’, Anthropologia Visualis 1.1: 53-59.
———. 1989/1991. Mammy Water: In Search of the Water Spirits of Nigeria (York: Ogbuide Films, distributed by University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, 1989; and by www.berkeley.com, 1991).
———. 1995. ‘The Concept of Mammy Water in Flora Nwapa’s Novels’, Research in African Literatures 26.2: 30-41.
———. 1997. ‘Eze Mmiri di Egwu—“The Water Monarch is Awesome”: Reconsidering the Mammy Water Myths’, in Flora Kaplan (ed.), Queens, Queen Mothers, Priestesses and Power: Case Studies in African Gender (New York: New York Academy of Sciences): 103-33.
———. 1998a. ‘Female Power: Water Priestesses of the Oru-Igbo’, in Obiama Nnaemeka (ed.), Sisterhood, Feminisms, and Power (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press): 101-32.
———. 1998b. ‘Flora Nwapa and Uhammiri/Ogbuibe Eze Nwanyi, the Lake Goddess’, in Marie Umeh (ed.), Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa (Trenton NJ: Africa World Press): 77-110.
———. 2000. ‘The Lake Goddess, Uhammiri/Ogbuide, Eze Nwanyi: A Case Study of the Female Side of the Universe in Igbo Cosmology’, in Jacob K. Olupona and Charles H. Long (eds.), African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings and Expressions (New York: Crossroads): 38-53.
———. 2008. ‘Dada-Dreadlock Hair: The Hidden Messages of Mammy Water in Southeastern Nigeria’, in Henry John Drewal (ed.), Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press): 245-57.
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Platvoet, J. G. (2013). Sabine Jell-Bahlsen, The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2008), xiv + 433 pp., $34.95 (cloth), ISBN: 1-59221-482-7. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 6(4), 527-530. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v6i4.527
