Introduction: How the Yorùbá became Nago -- The African nations of Salvador, Bahia -- The dispersal of the Yorùbá people -- The institutionalization of Yorùbá female power in Nago Candomblé -- Self-defense strategies in Bahian Candomblé in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- The reassertion of male participation in the Candomblé priesthood -- The popularization of Candomblé in the mid to late twentieth century.
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