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Òrìşà Devotion as World Religion
As the twenty-first century begins, tens of millions of people participate in devotions to the spirits called Òrìsà. This book explores the emergence of Òrìsà devotion as a world religion, one of the most remarkable and compelling developments in the history of the human religious quest. Originating among the Yorùbá people of West Africa, the varied traditions that comprise Òrìsà devotion are today found in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Australia. The African spirit proved remarkably resilient in the face of the transatlantic slave trade, inspiring the perseverance of African religion wherever its adherents settled in the New World. Among the most significant manifestati...
O banquete do Rei--Olubajé
Neste livro, o autor ressalta a etnografia sensível e ao mesmo tempo exata, que possibilita ao leitor vivenciar o belo descrito, bem como conhecer a complexa cultura das comunidades-terreiro. A metodologia utilizada vai além da observação participante e, aliada às técnicas de tratamento dado aos cânticos e mitos, forma um conjunto em que é possível perceber uma experiência religiosa refinada e profunda. O autor apresenta as histórias do povo-de-santo dramatizadas no ritual do Olubajé. O imaginário social, que foi mantido graças à oralidade, é desvendado pouco a pouco na escrita que, além da técnica, permite ao leitor adentrar no intrincado universo simbólico afro-brasileir...
Orí Eledá mí ó . . . Si mi cabeza no me vende
El presente libro analiza y compara la veneracion de Ori; entre los yorubas, los nagos brasilenos, y los lukumies cubanos y sus descendientes en la diaspora lukumi; la cual a partir del 1958 ha experimentado una difusion enorme fuera de la isla.
Secrets, Gossip, and Gods
In this wide-ranging book Paul Christopher Johnson explores the changing, hidden face of the Afro-Brazilian indigenous religion of Candomblé. Despite its importance in Brazilian society, Candomblé has received far less attention than its sister religions Vodou and Santeria. Johnson seeks to fill this void by offering a comprehensive look at the development, beliefs, and practices of Candomblé and exploring its transformation from a secret society of slaves--hidden, persecuted, and marginalized--to a public religion that is very much a part of Brazilian culture. Johnson traces this historical shift and locates the turning point in the creation of Brazilian national identity and a public sp...
The Sorcery of Color
An examination of how racial and gender hierarchies are intertwined in Brazil.
In the Shadow of Slavery
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment. Many familiar foods—millet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the "Asian" long bean, for example—are native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola, Worcestershire Sauce, and Palmolive Soap rely on African plants that were brought to the Americas on slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage, and bedding. In this exciting, original, and groundbreaking book, Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff draw on archaeological records, oral histories, and the accounts of slave ship captains to show how slaves' food plots—"botanical gardens of the dispossessed"—became the incubators of African survival in the Americas and Africanized the foodways of plantation societies.
O segredo das folhas
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Na minha casa
Descrevendo o ritual de oração no Candomblé, o Professor José Flávio Pessoa de Barros desvenda sua origem na importância simbólica da palavra para a religião iorubá, que não concebe o silêncio como forma de contato com os deuses. Neste sentido, a prece, no Candomblé, é um acompanhamento de todas as atividades sagradas.
Searching for Africa in Brazil
Searching for Africa in Brazil is a learned exploration of tradition and change in Afro-Brazilian religions. Focusing on the convergence of anthropologists’ and religious leaders’ exegeses, Stefania Capone argues that twentieth-century anthropological research contributed to the construction of an ideal Afro-Brazilian religious orthodoxy identified with the Nagô (Yoruba) cult in the northeastern state of Bahia. In contrast to other researchers, Capone foregrounds the agency of Candomblé leaders. She demonstrates that they successfully imposed their vision of Candomblé on anthropologists, reshaping in their own interest narratives of Afro-Brazilian religious practice. The anthropologic...
