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Book Chapters

  • “Dada-Dreadlocks-Hair: The Hidden Messages of Mammy Water in West Africa.” Exhibition Catalogue. Edited by Henry Drewal. Los Angeles: Fowler Art Museum/ Bloomington/In: Indiana University Press, 2008 (in press).

  • “Owu, Agugu, and Omerife: The sacred art and ritual of balancing people, nature, and water spirits.” Education, Culture and Development. Edited by Y.James Emejulu and Michael C. Mbabuike. White Plains, NY: Jimacs-Hillman Publishers, 2006: 66-91.

  • “Divine Waters of the Oru-Igbo in Southeastern Nigeria.” The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Edited by Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan. NYC: Continuum International, 2006.

  • “Mammy Water.” The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Edited by Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan. NYC: Continuum International, 2006.

  • “Funding Ethnographic Film and Video Productions in America.” Principles of Visual
    Anthropology. Edited by Paul Hockings (new & revised 2nd edition). Hawthorne, NY: Walter DeGruyter: 413-439, 2003.

  • “The Lake Goddess, Uhammiri/ Ogbuide, Eze Nwanyi: A Case Study of the Female Side of the Universe in Igbo Cosmology.” African Spirituality. Forms, Meanings and Expressions.
    Edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Charles H. Long. New York: Crossroad Press, 2000: 38-53.

  • “Female Power: Water Priestesses of the Oru-Igbo.” Sisterhood, Feminisms, and Power. From Africa to the Diaspora. Edited by Obioma Nnaemeka. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998: 101-131.

  • “Flora Nwapa and Uhammiri/ Ogbuide Eze Nwanyi, the Lake Goddess; an Evolving Relationship.” Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa. Critical and Theoretical Essays. Edited by Marie Umeh. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998: 77-110.

  • “An Interview with Flora Nwapa.” Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa. Critical and Theoretical Essays. Edited by Marie Umeh. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998: 633-645.

  • “Eze Mmiri di Egwu -- The Water Monarch is Awesome: Reconsidering the Mammy Water Myths.” Queens, Queen Mother, Priestesses and Power: Case Studies in African Gender. Edited by Flora Kaplan. New York: New York Academy of Sciences Vol.810, 1997: 103-134.

  • “Mammy Water: Weltbild, Ritual und Heilung: Beobachtungen bei den Oru-Igbo in Südost Nigeria 1978-1992.” (Mammy Water: Cosmolgy, Ritual and Healing: a Case Study of the Oru-Igbo in Southeastern Nigeria 1978-1992). Jahrbuch für transkulturelle Medizin und Psychotherapie 1993 (Yearbook of Cross-Cultural Medicine and Psychotherapy 1993). Edited by Walter Andritzky. Berlin/ Germany: Armand Aglaster Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1996.

  • “On the Making of 'Eze Nwata: the Small King'.” Anthropological Filmmaking. Edited by J. Rollwagen. New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1988: 197-221.