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Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomble Paperback / softback - 2010
by Stefania Capone Laffitte
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- Title Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomble
- Author Stefania Capone Laffitte
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Condition New
- Pages 320
- Language ENG
- Publisher Duke University Press Books
- Date 2010-05
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780822346364
- ISBN 9780822346364
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- Cultural Region: Latin America
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""Searching for Africa in Brazil" 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."--Stephan Palmie, author of "Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition"