Fetishes and monuments : Afro-Brazilian art and culture in the twentieth century / Roger Sansi.

Fetishes and monuments : Afro-Brazilian art and culture in the twentieth century /

One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects,...

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Main Author: Sansi-Roca, Roger (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Series:Remapping cultural history ; v. 6.
Subjects:
Religion and culture > Brazil > History > 20th century.
Black people > Brazil > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Candomblé (Religion)
Art and society > Brazil > History > 20th century.
Art, Brazilian > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Idols and images in art.
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