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The taste of blood : spirit possession in Brazilian Candomblé / Jim Wafer.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wafer, James William, 1948-
- Series:
- Contemporary ethnography.
- Contemporary ethnography series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Candomblé--Brazil.
- Candomblé.
- Spirit possession--Brazil.
- Spirit possession.
- Genre:
- Ethnography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Enter the fascinating world of the Condomble regions of Brazil, where interaction between spirits and human is considered an everyday occurrence. Jim Wafer uncovers the social life, rituals, folklore, and engaging personalities of the villagers of Jacari, among whom trances, sorcery, and spirit possession demonstrate the coexistence of different kinds of reality.This ethnography is intriguing not only because of the originality of its approach to the more enigmatic aspects of another culture but also because it uses insights gained from participation in that culture to reflect on the paradoxes inherent in the writer's own culture, and in the human condition in general.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Exu
- pt. 2. Caboclo
- pt. 3. Orixá.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-21213-7
- 9786613212139
- 0-8122-0386-0
- 0-585-12750-6
- OCLC:
- 44957396
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