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Nagô Grandma and White Papa : Candomblé and the creation of Afro-Brazilian identity /

In this signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies, Dantas compares the formation of religious traditions and ethnic identities in the Brazilian states of Sergipe and Bahia, revealing how they diverged from each other due to their different social and political contexts and n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dantas, Beatriz Góis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Portugués
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Colección:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The configuration of prestige in the Xangô Terreiros
  • Nagô speaks of itself
  • Nagô speaks of "the others"
  • The construction and meaning of "Nagô purity"
  • Uses of Africa by the Nagô Terreiro.