African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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221 p., Chronicling the period from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the start of Brazil's military regime in 1964, Romo uncovers how the state's nonwhite majority moved from being a source of embarrassment to being a critical component of Bahia's identity.
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Original edition translated from Portuguese by Elena Langdon., 266 p., An examination of the meanings of blackness in the Brazilian state of Bahia, which is often called the most African part of Brazil.
Dantas,Beatriz Góis (Author) and Berg,Stephen (Translator)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2009
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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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198 p., Compares the formation of religious traditions and ethnic identities in the Brazilian states of Sergipe and Bahia, revealing how they diverged from each other due to their different social and political contexts and needs.
Salvador-Bahia: Fundação Pedro Calmon : IPAC, Bahia, Secretaria de Cultura
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85 p., Contents: Sobre o Pano da Costa / Márcio Meirelles -- Um resgate da memória / Frederico A.R.C. Mendonça -- O Pano da Costa : nota introdutória / Jorge da Silva Maurício -- Pano da Costa au Alaká / Nivea Alves dos Santos -- O Pano da Costa na representação dos viajantes : séculos XVII ao XIX / Maria Conceição Barbosa da Costa e Silva -- Técnica de elaboração do Pano da Costa / Goya Lopes, Maria de Lourdes Nobre -- Ensinamentos de Mestre Abdias no Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá, 1986 -- Tecendo o Pano da Costa hoje / Jussara Rocha Nascimento.
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Originally published in Portuguese in Campinas by Editora da Unicamp as A formação do Candomblé: História e ritual da nação jeje na Bahia, 2006., 398 p., Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas.