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Author:

Harding, Rachel E., 1962-

Title:

A refuge in thunder : Candomblé and alternative spaces of blackness / Rachel E. Harding.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

xix, 251 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Candomblé (Cult)--History--19th century.
Blacks--Bahia (State)--Bahia (State)--History--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-245) and index.

Contents:

Slavery, Africanos Libertos, and the question of Black presence in nineteenth-century Brazil -- Salvador: the urban environment -- The Bolsa de Mandinga and Calundu: Afro-Brazilian religion as fetish and Feitiçaria -- "Dis continuity," context, and documentation: origins and interpretations of the religion -- The nineteenth-century development of Candomblé -- Healing and cultivating Axé: profiles of Candomblé leaders and communities -- Networks of support, spaces of resistance: alternative orientations of Black life in nineteenth-century Bahia -- Candomblé as Feitiço: reterritorialization, embodiment, and the alchemy of history in an Afro-Brazilian religion -- Coda: abolition, freedom, and Candomblé as alternative Cidadania in Brazil.

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora

ISBN:

9780253337054 (cl : alk. paper)
0253337054 (cl : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42733854

LCCN:

99054087

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)