Capone, Stefania.

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?

9780822346258 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822346364 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009047586


Candomble (Religion)
Cults--Brazil.
Gods, Afro-Brazilian.
Blacks--Religion.--Brazil
Religiones africanas--Brasil
Candoniblé--Brasil
Religión de los negros--Brasil

BL 2592 / C246s 2010

299.6/7340981