Nagô Grandma and White Papa : Candomblé and the creation of Afro-Brazilian identity / Beatriz Góis Dantas ; translated by Stephen Berg.
In this signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies, Dantas compares the formation of religious traditions and ethnic identities in the Brazilian states of Sergipe and Bahia, revealing how they diverged from each other due to their different social and political contexts and n...
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| Other title: | Vovó Nagô e Papai Branco. English. Nagô Grandma & White Papa. Candomblé and the creation of Afro-Brazilian identity. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Portuguese |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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| Summary: | In this signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies, Dantas compares the formation of religious traditions and ethnic identities in the Brazilian states of Sergipe and Bahia, revealing how they diverged from each other due to their different social and political contexts and needs. This volume makes the book, originally published in Brazil, available in English for the first time. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807898482 0807898481 9781469605487 1469605481 0807831778 9780807831779 0807859753 9780807859759 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |