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Available
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Publication
Indiana University Press (2000), 272 pages
Description
The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognized as an extraordinary resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. Outlawed and persecuted in the late colonial and imperial period, Candomble nevertheless developed as one of the major religious expressions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Drawing principally on primary sources, such as police archives, Rachel E. Harding describes the development of the religion as an ""alternative"" space in which subjugated and enslaved blacks could gain a sense of individual and collective identity in opposition to the subaltern status imposed upon them by the dominant society.
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
272 p.; 6.42 inches
ISBN
0253337054 / 9780253337054
Local notes
Inscribed by author. Pencil notations
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