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The formation of Candomblé : Vodun history and ritual in Brazil
Uniform Title
Formação do Candomblé. English
Title
The formation of Candomblé : Vodun history and ritual in Brazil / Luis Nicolau Parés ; translated by Richard Vernon in collaboration with the author.
ISBN
9780807833117 (hardcover)
0807833118 (hardcover)
9781469610924 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1469610922 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Physical Description
xx, 398 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes
Originally published in Portuguese in Campinas by Editora da Unicamp as A formação do Candomblé: História e ritual da nação jeje na Bahia, 2006.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 27, 2014
Series
Latin America in translation / en traducción / em tradução
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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