Searching for Africa in Brazil : Power and Tradition in Candomblé /
Analyzes the politics of the "Africanness" of Afro-Brazilian religion, focusing on the conflicts and interplay between academics and practitioners over the past century
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Durham [NC] :
Duke University Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The messenger of the gods : Exu in Afro-Brazilian religions
- The spirits of darkness : Exu and Pombagira in Umbanda
- The religious continuum
- Reorganizing sacred space
- Contesting power
- Exu and the anthropologists
- In search of lost origins
- Which Africa? which tradition?