Sorcery in the Black Atlantic – Luis Nicolau Pares, Roger Sansi
Most scholarship on sorcery and witchcraft has narrowly focused on specific times and places, particularly early modern Europe and twentieth-century Africa. And much of that…
Category: Library – Candomblé
Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomblé – Stefania Capone Laffitte
Searching for Africa in Brazil is a learned exploration of tradition and change in Afro-Brazilian religions. Focusing on the convergence of anthropologists’ and religious leaders’…
Secrets, Gossip, and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé – Paul Christopher Johnson
In this wide-ranging book Paul Christopher Johnson explores the changing, hidden face of the Afro-Brazilian indigenous religion of Candomblé. Despite its importance in Brazilian society,…
Ecstatic Encounters: Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real – Mattijs van de Port
For over a hundred years, writers, artists, anthropologists and tourists have travelled to Bahia, Brazil, in search of the spirit possession cult called Candomblé. Thus,…
Nago Grandma and White Papa: Candomble and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity – Beatriz Gois Dantas
Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes…