Revolt of the Saints : Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy /

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Anthropologist John F. Collins explores shifts in racial identification in Brazil by examining the transformation of a celebrated Afro-Brazilian neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil from a red light district into an idealized UNESCO World Heritage Site, wherein its residents were celebrated yet stigmati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Collins, John F., 1965 April 19- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Rassismus
Ethnische Beziehungen
Soziale Situation
Slum
Caboclos
Schwarze
Social conditions.
Race relations.
Black people.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Noirs > Bresil > Salvador.
Black people > Brazil > Salvador.
Brasilien
El Salvador
Brazil > Salvador > Pelourinho.
Brazil > Salvador.
Pelourinho (Salvador, Brazil) > Race relations.
Pelourinho (Salvador, Brazil) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: being, through the archive
  • "The eighteenth battalion of love": failure and the dissemination of misinterpretation
  • Letters to the Amazons
  • Prostitution's bureaucracy: making up people in the "city of women"
  • A metaphysics for our time: Pelourinho properties, Bahian social bodies, and the shifting meanings of rams and fetuses
  • Treasure tales and national bodies: mystery and metaphor in Bahian life
  • "But madame, what if I should need to defecate in your neighborhood?"
  • "Chatty chatty mouth, you want to know your culture"
  • Conclusion: saints, not angels.

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