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Mammy Water : in search of the water spirits in Nigeria / a co-production by Tandem Film & Sabine Jell-Bahlsen ; written & directed by Sabine Jell-Bahlsen.
Penn Museum Library - Media DVD BL2470.N5 M36 2009
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Igbo
- Ijo
- Subjects (All):
- Water spirits--Nigeria.
- Water spirits.
- Rites and ceremonies--Nigeria.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Ijo (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.
- Ijo (African people).
- Ijo (African people)--Religion.
- Religion.
- Nigeria, Eastern--Religion.
- Nigeria, Eastern.
- Igbo (African people)--Religion.
- Igbo (African people).
- Igbo (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.
- Eastern Nigeria.
- Nigeria.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources [distributor], 2009.
- Language Note:
- Primarily in English, with some Igbo and Ijo with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The film features Mammy Water rituals and interviews with Igbo and Ijaw devotees and their leaders. Mammy Water is a water deity worshiped in Nigeria.
- Participant:
- Narrators, Donald Arthur, Cassandra Francis, Jean Scott.
- Credits:
- Camera, Yusufu Mohammed ; editor, Wolfgang Gessat.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the 1989 production. Copyright on film is 1989; container and disc surface give 1990 as production date.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 498444113
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