The formation of Candomblé Vodun history and ritual in Brazil / Luis Nicolau Pares ; translated by Richard Vernon in collaboration with the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parés, Luis Nicolau, author.

Series:

Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.

Latin America in translation / en traducción / em tradução

Standardized Title:

Formação do Candomblé. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Brazil--Bahia (State)--Religion.

Black people.

Black people--Brazil--Bahia (State)--History.

Black people--Brazil--Bahia (State)--Ethnic identity.

Candomblé--Brazil--Bahia (State).

Candomblé.

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

Bahia (Brazil : State).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Formation of Candomblé: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-337-0

979-88-908834-1-4

1-4696-1093-0

1-4696-1263-1

OCLC:

861692424