Description
Book SynopsisThe Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognised as a resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. This book describes development of religion as an "alternative" space in which subjugated and enslaved blacks were able to cultivate a sense of individual.
Trade Review"[An important] detailing of the development and evolution of a major institution of the African Diaspora [and] of Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian identity." Sheila S. Walker
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Slavery, Africanos Libertos and the Question of Black Presence in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
2. Salvador: The Urban Environment
3. The Bolsa de Mandinga and Calundu: Afro-Brazilian Religion as Fetish and Fetiçaria
4. "Dis Continuity," Context and Documentation: Origins and Interpretations of the Religion
5. The Nineteenth-Century Development of Candomblé
6. Healing and Cultivating Axé: Profiles of Candomblé Leaders and Communities
7. Networks of Support, Spaces of Resistance: Alternative Orientations of Black Life in Nineteenth-Century Bahia
8. 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.
Glossary
Appendix: Selected Documents from the Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia
Notes
Bibliography
