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310 p., "The idea baianidade is very much a model, a source of inspiration, the translation of concrete reality. All cultural identities are just that: ideas. ...They unite people, facilitate dialogue, summarize important, beautiful values. As can also serve to alienate us from other people, to justify to ourselves, our faults and mistakes." --The Author, "Agnes Mariano e a "Invenção da Baianidade" (www.passieweb.com).
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385 p., The study is not a work about religion but rather of black African identity. Leaning on three black African societies (Yoruba of Benin and Nigeria, Agni-Akan and Senufo Ivory Coast), the author investigates the notion of person. Faced with the question of death, passing moment of earthly existence of man to his condition.
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213 p., One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomble were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its religious objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments
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Prev. ed. published: Rio de Janeiro: EdUERJ, 1996, 268 p., Contents: 1. A matriz africana no mundo -- 2. Cultura em movimento : matrizes africanas e ativismo negro no Brasil -- 3. Guerreiras de natureza : mulher negra, religiosidade e ambiente -- 4. Afrocentricidade : uma abordagem epistemológica inovadora.
Kabengele,Munanga (Author) and Gomes,Nilma Lino (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Potuguese
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
São Paulo: Global Editora Ação Educativa
Location:
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224 p, Contents: Homens e mulheres negros: notas de vida e de sucesso. Abdias do Nascimento. Adhemar Ferreira da Silva. Alzira Rufino. André Rebouças. Benedita da Silva. Carolina de Jesus. Cartola. Castro Alves. Chica da Silva. Clementina de Jesus. Domingas Maria do Nascimento. Dom Silvério Gomes Pimenta. Elisa Lucinda. Emanoel Araújo. Fátima de Oliveira. Francisca. Geni Guimarães. Gilberto Gil. Grande Otelo. João Cruz e Sousa. Joel Rufino dos Santos. Jorge dos Anjos. José do Patrocínio. Léa Garcia. Lélia Gonzáles. Lima Barreto. Luís Gama. Luísa Mahim. Machado de Assis. Mãe Stella. Manuel Querino. Mestre Didi. Milton Gonçalves. Milton Santos. Paulo Paim. Pixinguinha. Raquel Trindade. Ruth de Souza. Teodoro Sampaio. Toni Tornado. Zezé Mota