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Author:
Dantas, Beatriz Góis.
Title:
Nagô Grandma and White Papa : Candomblé and the creation of Afro-Brazilian identity / Beatriz Góis Dantas ; translated by Stephen Berg.
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Afro-Brazilian cults.
Brazil--Religion.
Candomblé (Religion)--Bahia (State)--Bahia (State)
Candomblé (Religion)--Sergipe.--Sergipe.
Yoruba (African people)--Brazil--Folklore.
Blacks--Brazil--Ethnic identity.
Other Titles:
Vovó Nagô e Papai Branco. English.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The configuration of prestige in the Xangô Terreiros -- Nagô speaks of itself -- Nagô speaks of "the others" -- The construction and meaning of "Nagô purity" -- Uses of Africa by the Nagô Terreiro.
Series:
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
ISBN:
0807859753 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807859759 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807831778 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807831779 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)313078485
LCCN:
2009009197
Locations:
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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