The development of Yoruba Candomble communities in Salvador, Bahia, 1835-1986 / Miguel C. Alonso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alonso, Miguel C., author.

Series:

Afro-Latin@ diasporas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Candomblé--Brazil--Salvador--History.

Candomblé.

Yoruba (African people)--Brazil--Salvador--History.

Yoruba (African people).

History.

Salvador (Brazil)--Religious life and customs.

Salvador (Brazil).

Brazil--Salvador.

Physical Description:

xii, 200 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries. Given the scarcity of primary sources for this particular subject, it focuses mainly on the works of early Bahian ethnographers as primary sources (even as it analyzes these sources' inherent weaknesses, such as the inability to corroborate much of their information and the cultural biases from which they were constructed), while also incorporating newspaper accounts, police records, oral interviews, and a variety of other innovative forms of evidence. The result is a fascinating historical study of a community characterized by a profound secrecy and a remarkable ability to manipulate or deliberately mislead outside researchers to preserve their own self-interests and protect what they feel is privileged information. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: How the Yorùbá became Nago

The African nations of Salvador, Bahia

The dispersal of the Yorùbá people

The institutionalization of Yorùbá female power in Nago Candomblé

Self-defense strategies in Bahian Candomblé in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

The reassertion of male participation in the Candomblé priesthood

The popularization of Candomblé in the mid to late twentieth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137485380

1137485388

OCLC:

886489930