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The formation of Candomblé : Vodun history and ritual in Brazil /

Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and twenty-first century ethnography, the author traces the formation of Candomblé, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Br...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Parés, Luis Nicolau (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Portugués
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Series:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Between two coasts : nations, ethnicities, ports, and the slave trade
  • The formation of a Jeje ethnic identity in Bahia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  • From Calundu to Candomblé : the formative process of Afro-Brazilian religion
  • The Jeje contribution to the institutionalization of Candomblé in the nineteenth century
  • Bogum and Roça de Cima : the parallel history of two Jeje terreiros in the second half of the nineteenth century
  • Leadership and internal dynamic of the Bogum and Seja Hundé terreiros in the twentieth century
  • The Jeje Pantheon and its transformations
  • The ritual : characteristics of the Jeje-Mahi liturgy in Bahia.