{"product_id":"searching-for-africa-in-brazil-9780822346364","title":"Searching for Africa in Brazil","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ethnography of Afro-Brazilian religious traditions including Candomblé shows that the lines separating one tradition from another are much less fixed than anthropologists and Afro-Brazilian religious elites have maintained.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[T]he volume still stands admirably on its own. . . . [A] fascinating survey of the history of the field. . . . Capone is especially illuminating in her reading of anthropology and its reification of tradition. . . . Capone’s frank reflections on the field are thought provoking and important. . . .” - Anadelia Romo, \u003ci\u003eThe Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stefania Capone’s \u003ci\u003eSearching for Africa in Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e provides an important contribution to the study of Afro-American religions that highlights the intellectual, political, and ritualistic complexities of Candomblé. . . . Capone’s study is indeed a pivotal contribution to the discourse on Afro-Brazilian, Black Atlantic, and African Diasporic studies. Her argument is grounded in solid historical assessments of anthropological treatments of Afro-Brazilian religions, provides extensive footnotes that detail field work experiences of the author and pioneers in the field, and includes a comprehensive bibliography of works on Afro-American religions and Yoruba spirituality.” - Abu J. Toure, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Religion in Africa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anthropologists and anthropology graduate students will find this volume rich and rewarding. Historians such as myself will take much from the several chapters that trace the evolution of ideas about competing branches of Candomblé beliefs. Capone presents a forceful challenge to long-accepted anthropological methods of studying Candomblé (and, by extension, other religions), pointing out the problematic propensity of students to follow in their advisors’ footsteps by visiting the same sites.” - Walter Hawthorne, \u003ci\u003eHistory: Reviews of New Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The originality of this work lies in the disclosure of the incestuous unions between temple and university that together produced a particular version of African tradition. This kind of analysis is not new, but Capone’s study is particularly effective because of its anchoring in the close microstudy of the dramatic changes of ‘tradition’ in Candomblé as those very changes are then reworked as deeply African. . . . It would seem then that this triumph of the tropes of African ‘origins’ and ‘authenticity’ over their rivals in a meta-economy of signs, even for those not of African descent, a semiotic battle richly described in this work, offers pressing new questions for the next generation of research. Stefania Capone’s careful, intelligent study has laid the groundwork to make those sorts of reflections possible.”\u003cbr\u003e - Paul Christopher Johnson,\u003ci\u003e Journal of the American Academy of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A]n excellent monograph about Afro-Brazilian religious traditions, in particular Umbanda and Candomblé.” - Bettina Schmidt, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Religious History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSearching for Africa in Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most descriptively rich and analytically insightful treatments of AfroBrazilian religion to date. Every student and ethnographer of Candomblé will undoubtedly do their research a great service if they read this book.” - Emma Cohen, \u003ci\u003eCritique of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSearching for Africa in Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e is a major piece of scholarship. Through careful historical research and vivid ethnographic detail, Stefania Capone demonstrates that conceptual pairs such as pure\/impure, religious\/magical, traditional\/modernized, and communal\/individualistic have long played a major role in highly self-conscious and overtly politicized representations of Afro-Brazilian religion. This is so both in regards to practitioners’ discourses aimed at legitimizing their forms of practice at the expense of their rivals’ and in regards to the changing views of anthropologists who sought a definitional monopoly over what could count as ‘African,’ ‘traditional,’ and so forth.”—\u003cb\u003eStephan Palmié\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The translation of this outstanding work into English is a real service to scholars. \u003ci\u003eSearching for Africa in Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e is a well researched and carefully argued examination of the ongoing disputations about the origins and transformations in Candomblé. Stefania Capone is particularly insightful regarding the role that outsiders have played in shaping disputes about authenticity, sources, and their relation to African origins.”—\u003cb\u003eAnani Dzidzienyo\u003c\/b\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eNeither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSearching for Africa in Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most descriptively rich and analytically insightful treatments of AfroBrazilian religion to date. Every student and ethnographer of Candomblé will undoubtedly do their research a great service if they read this book.” -- Emma Cohen * Critique of Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e“[A]n excellent monograph about Afro-Brazilian religious traditions, in particular Umbanda and Candomblé.” -- Bettina Schmidt * Journal of Religious History *\u003cbr\u003e“[T]he volume still stands admirably on its own. . . . [A] fascinating survey of the history of the field. . . . Capone is especially illuminating in her reading of anthropology and its reification of tradition. . . . Capone’s frank reflections on the field are thought provoking and important. . . .” -- Anadelia Romo * The Americas *\u003cbr\u003e“Anthropologists and anthropology graduate students will find this volume rich and rewarding. Historians such as myself will take much from the several chapters that trace the evolution of ideas about competing branches of Candomblé beliefs. Capone presents a forceful challenge to long-accepted anthropological methods of studying Candomblé (and, by extension, other religions), pointing out the problematic propensity of students to follow in their advisors’ footsteps by visiting the same sites.” -- Walter Hawthorne * History: Reviews of New Books *\u003cbr\u003e“Stefania Capone’s \u003ci\u003eSearching for Africa in Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e provides an important contribution to the study of Afro-American religions that highlights the intellectual, political, and ritualistic complexities of Candomblé. . . . Capone’s study is indeed a pivotal contribution to the discourse on Afro-Brazilian, Black Atlantic, and African Diasporic studies. Her argument is grounded in solid historical assessments of anthropological treatments of Afro-Brazilian religions, provides extensive footnotes that detail field work experiences of the author and pioneers in the field, and includes a comprehensive bibliography of works on Afro-American religions and Yoruba spirituality.” -- Abu J. Toure * Journal of Religion in Africa *\u003cbr\u003e“The originality of this work lies in the disclosure of the incestuous unions between temple and university that together produced a particular version of African tradition. This kind of analysis is not new, but Capone’s study is particularly effective because of its anchoring in the close microstudy of the dramatic changes of ‘tradition’ in Candomblé as those very changes are then reworked as deeply African. . . . It would seem then that this triumph of the tropes of African ‘origins’ and ‘authenticity’ over their rivals in a meta-economy of signs, even for those not of African descent, a semiotic battle richly described in this work, offers pressing new questions for the next generation of research. Stefania Capone’s careful, intelligent study has laid the groundwork to make those sorts of reflections possible.”\u003cbr\u003e -- Paul Christopher Johnson * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations vii\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the American Edition ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Some Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Metamorphoses of Exu \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Messenger of the Gods: Exu in Afro-Brazilian Religions 35\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Spirits of Darkness: Exu and Pombagira in Umbanda 69\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Ritual Practice \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Religious Continuum 95\u003cbr\u003e 4. Reorganizing Sacred Space 121\u003cbr\u003e 5. Contesting Power 143\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Construction of Tradition \u003cbr\u003e 6. Exu and the Anthropologists 173\u003cbr\u003e 7. In Search of Lost Origins 203\u003cbr\u003e 8. Which Africa? Which Tradition? 233\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 255\u003cbr\u003e Glossary 263\u003cbr\u003e Notes 269\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 297\u003cbr\u003e Index 311","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406057972055,"sku":"9780822346364","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822346364.jpg?v=1730494387","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/searching-for-africa-in-brazil-9780822346364","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}