A refuge in thunder : Candomblé and alternative spaces of blackness /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2000]
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| Series: | Blacks in the diaspora.
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Table of Contents:
- Slavery, Africanos Libertos, and the question of Black presence in nineteenth-century Brazil
- Salvador: the urban environment
- The Bolsa de Mandinga and Calundu: Afro-Brazilian religion as fetish and Feitiçaria
- "Dis continuity," context, and documentation: origins and interpretations of the religion
- The nineteenth-century development of Candomblé
- Healing and cultivating Axé: profiles of Candomblé leaders and communities
- Networks of support, spaces of resistance: alternative orientations of Black life in nineteenth-century Bahia
- Candomblé as Feitiço: reterritorialization, embodiment, and the alchemy of history in an Afro-Brazilian religion
- Coda: abolition, freedom, and Candomblé as alternative Cidadania in Brazil.