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Book SynopsisIlluminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion. This book contests the conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and most isolated of black populations.
Trade ReviewWinner of the 2006 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association "Readers with an interest in Afro-diasporan studies and the historical development of 'creole' or 'hybrid' cultures, as well as those attentive to contemporary debates about modernity, nationalism, and globalization, will find here a provocative reflection on Black Atlantic culture."--Kelly E. Hayes, History of Religions
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Introduction 1 Chapter One: The English Professors of Brazil On the Diasporic Roots of the Yoruba Nation 38 Chapter Two: The Trans-Atlantic Nation Rethinking Nations and Transnationalism 73 Chapter Three: Purity and Transnationalism On the Transformation of Ritual in the Yoruba-Atlantic Diaspora 115 Chapter Four: Candomble's Newest Nation: Brazil 149 Chapter Five: Para Ingles Ver Sex, Secrecy, and Scholarship in the Yoruba-Atlantic World 188 Chapter Six: Man in the "City of Women" 224 Chapter Seven: Conclusion The Afro-Atlantic Dialogue 267 Appendix A: Geechees and Gullahs The Locus Classicus of African "Survivals" in the United States 295 Appendix B: The Origins of the Term "Jeje" 299 Notes 301 Bibliography 343 Index 369
