Searching for Africa in Brazil
Subtitle: power and tradition in candomblé
By: Stefania Capone ; translated from the French by Lucy Lyall Grant.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780822346258; 9780822346364
Subjects: Candomblé (Religion); Cults -- Brazil; Gods, Afro-Brazilian; Blacks -- Brazil -- Religion
Work titles: Quête de l'Afrique dans le candomblé.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The messenger of the gods : Exu in Afro-Brazilian religions; title: The spirits of darkness : Exu and Pombagira in Umbanda; title: The religious continuum; title: Reorganizing sacred space; title: Contesting power; title: Exu and the anthropologists; title: In search of lost origins; title: Which Africa? which tradition?