Body portraits of spiritual selves: culture working though relationships in an Afro-Brazilian community

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Falgoust,Nicole (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Subject Term:
    Blacks, Identity (self awareness), Interviews, Salvador (Brazil), South America, Spiritualism, Human body, and Religion, Umbanda
    Notes:
    456 p., Ethnographic study of an Afro-Brazilian center in Salvador, Bahia Brazil contributes to theoretical conversations in the anthropology of the body, medical and psychological anthropology, and relational psychoanalysis.

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