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Searching for Africa in Brazil : power and tradition in candomblé
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Quête de l'Afrique dans le candomblé. English
Title
Searching for Africa in Brazil : power and tradition in candomblé / Stefania Capone ; translated from the French by Lucy Lyall Grant.
ISBN
9780822346258 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822346257 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822346364 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822346362 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
xiv, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Translation of: La quête de l'Afrique dans le candomblé : pouvoir et tradition au Brésil.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 10, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-310) and index.
Contents
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?
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