Brazil's living museum
Subtitle: race, reform, and tradition in Bahia
By: Anadelia A. Romo.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807833827; 9780807871157
Subjects: Blacks -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Government relations; Blacks -- Race identity -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- History; Politics and culture -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- History; Bahia (Brazil : State) -- History; Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Race relations; Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Civilization -- African influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Between Africa and Athens : Bahia's search for identity; title: Finding a cure for Bahia; title: Contests of culture; title: Preserving the past; title: Debating African roots; title: Embattled modernization and the retrenchment of tradition.