Brazil
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
place: label: Place
content: Brazil
label: Place
content: Bahia (Brazil : State)
label: Place
content: Salvador (Brazil)
topic: label: Topic
content: Candomblé (Religion)
label: Topic
content: Afro-Brazilian cults
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content: Lavagem do Bonfim
label: Topic
content: Harbors -- Brazil
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content: Sailboats
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content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Fashion
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content: Drums
label: Topic
content: Agogo
label: Topic
content: Altars
label: Topic
content: Capoeira
label: Topic
content: Capoeira (Dance)
culture: label: Culture
content: Afro-Brazilians
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content: Melville Herskovits photographs
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 126 Photographs (B/W,  negatives and photographic prints, 3 x 4 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: September 1941 to August 1942
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: The Ruth Landes papers at the National Anthropological Archives, contains field research on the role of Afro-Brazilian women and homosexuals in the Candomblé religion in Bahia, Brazil between 1938 and 1939. The materials include field journals, writings, and photographs. Landes was  accompanied by Edison Carneiro, a Bahian journalist and folklorist, and interviewed a few of the same members of Candomble terreiros.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Between September 1941 to August 1942, Melville Jean Herskovits and Frances (Shapiro) Herskovits travelled to Salvador, Brazil, bringing along their daughter Jean Frances Herskovits. Along with other anthropologists at the time, the couple was studying the black family and cultural continuity of African cultures as they evolved in the diaspora. Their field research in Brazil was funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, where the Herskovits's visited Candomble terreiros around Bahia, particularly interacting with members from the Zoogodô Bogum Malê Rundó, commonly known as Terreiro do Bogum. The Terreiro is a 303-year-old community embedded in the heart of the Salvadoran neighborhood, called Engenho Velho da Federação. While abroad in Brazil, Melville J. received  the title of Honorary Professor of Anthropology from the Facultad do Filosofia at Bahia.