Eze Mmiri Di Egwu, the water monarch is awesome: Reconsidering the mammy water myths

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 810, Issue , 1997, Pages 103-134

  Jell Bahlsen, Sabine ^a,b  

^a RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; BENIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECONOMICS; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE; NIGERIA; RELIGION; SOCIETY;

EID: 0030745155     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48126.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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