Secrets, Gossip, and Gods
Subtitle: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomble
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 7, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780195188226
First sentence: Early in my fieldwork I was sharing a table at a street cafe with two "elder" initiates (ebomi) and risked a fairly theological question about sacrifice, the orixas, and the problem of human death.