The formation of Candomble [electronic resource] : Vodun history and ritual in Brazil / Luis Nicolau Pares ; translated by Richard Vernon in collaboration with the author.

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.

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