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Language: en
Pages: 341
Pages: 341
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-06 - Publisher: University Press of Florida
Examines how in the middle of the twentieth century, Bahian elites began to recognize African-Bahian cultural practices as essential components of Bahian region
Language: en
Pages: 347
Pages: 347
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazi
Language: en
Pages: 237
Pages: 237
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and
Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-06 - Publisher: Springer
This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomblé and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences fro
Language: en
Pages: 310
Pages: 310
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-01 - Publisher: MSU Press
One of the few interdisciplinary volumes on Bahia available, The Making of Brazil’s Black Mecca: Bahia Reconsidered contains contributions covering a wide chr
