Searching for Africa in Brazil : power and tradition in candomblé /
Stefania Capone ; translated from the French by Lucy Lyall Grant.
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- xiv, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Traducido de: Quete de l'Afrique dans le candomble.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-310) and index.
The messenger of the gods : Exu in Afro-Brazilian religions -- The spirits of darkness : Exu and Pombagira in Umbanda -- The religious continuum -- Reorganizing sacred space -- Contesting power -- Exu and the anthropologists -- In search of lost origins -- Which Africa? which tradition?