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The formation of Candomble

Pares, Luis Nicolau,

The formation of Candomble Vodun history and ritual in Brazil / [electronic resource] : Luis Nicolau Pares ; translated by Richard Vernon in collaboration with the author. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Latin America in translation / en traducción / em tradução .

Originally published in Portuguese in Campinas by Editora da Unicamp as A formação do Candomble: História e ritual da nação jeje na Bahia, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Between two coasts: nations, ethnicities, ports, and the slave trade -- The formation of a Jeje ethnic identity in Bahia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- From Calundu to Candomble: the formative process of Afro-Brazilian religion -- The Jeje contribution to the institutionalization of Candomble in the nineteenth century -- Bogum and Roça de Cima: the parallel history of two Jeje terreiros in the second half of the nineteenth century -- Leadership and internal dynamic of the Bogum and Seja Hunde terreiros in the twentieth century -- The Jeje Pantheon and its transformations -- The ritual: characteristics of the Jeje-Mahi liturgy in Bahia.

9781469612638


Blacks--Religion.--Brazil--Bahia (State)
Blacks--History.--Brazil--Bahia (State)
Blacks--Ethnic identity.--Brazil--Bahia (State)
Candomble (Religion)--Brazil--Bahia (State)


Bahia (Brazil : State)--Religious life and customs.


Electronic books.

BL2592.C35 / P3713 2013

299.673098142