Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations and other media ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Note on terminology and orthography xv
6. Introduction xvii
7. Yemoja, Gender, and Sexuality
8. Invocación 2
9. Nobody’s Mammy 9
10. Yemayá’s Duck 43
11. Yemayá y Ochún 85
12. A Different Kind of Sweetness 113
13. Yemoja 131
14. Yemoja’s Aesthetics
15. “Yemaya Blew That Wire Fence Down” 153
16. Dancing Aché with Yemaya in My Life and in My Art 187
17. What the Water Brings and Takes Away 197
18. “The Sea Never Dies”: Yem⍜ja: 215
19. A Sonic Portrait with Photos of Salvador’s Iemanjá Festival 267
20. Yemayá Offering a Pearl of Wisdom 275
21. Notes on Contributors 279
22. Index 285