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.
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