Searching for Africa in Brazil : power and tradition in candomblé.
Searching for Africa in Brazil is a learned exploration of tradition and change in Afro-Brazilian religions. Focusing on the convergence of anthropologists’ and religious leaders’ exegeses, Stefania Capone argues that twentieth-century anthropological research contributed to the construction of an i...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2010.
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
- 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?