Fetishes and Monuments : : Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20‹SUP›th‹/SUP› Century / / Roger Sansi.
One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Remapping Cultural History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Culture and Objectification in the Black Rome
- Chapter 1 ‘Making the Saint’: Spirits, Shrines and Syncretism in Candomblé
- Chapter 2 From Sorcery to Civilisation: The Objectification of Afro-Brazilian Culture
- Chapter 3 From Informants to Scholars: Appropriating Afro-Brazilian Culture
- Chapter 4 From Weapons of Crime to Jewels of the Crown: Candomblé in Museums
- Chapter 5 From the Shanties to the Mansions: Candomblé as National Heritage
- Chapter 6 Modern Art and Afro-Brazilian Culture in Bahia
- Chapter 7 Authenticity and Commodification in Afro-Brazilian Art
- Chapter 8 Candomblé as Public Art: The Orixás of Tororó
- Chapter 9 Re-appropriations of Afro-Brazilian Culture
- Bibliography
- Index