By Beatriz Góis Dantas

ISBN-10: 0807831778

ISBN-13: 9780807831779

ISBN-10: 0807859753

ISBN-13: 9780807859759

Nago Grandma and White Papa is a sign paintings in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora reports initially released in Brazil in 1988. This variation makes Beatriz Gois Dantas's historioethnographic research on hand to an English-speaking viewers for the 1st time.

Dantas compares the formation of Yoruba (Nago) non secular traditions and ethnic identities within the Brazilian states of Sergipe and Bahia, revealing how they diverged from one another because of their diversified social and political contexts and wishes. through monitoring how markers of supposedly "pure" ethnic id and non secular perform differed notably from one position to a different, Dantas exhibits the social development of identification inside a community of class-related calls for and alliances. She demonstrates how the form and that means of "purity" were laid low with lengthy and intricate social and cultural blending, compromise, and fight over the years. Ethnic identification, in addition to social id regularly, is shaped within the crucible of political kinfolk among social teams that purposefully mobilize and manage cultural markers to outline their respective boundaries--a procedure, Dantas argues, that has to be utilized to realizing the event of African-descended humans in Brazil.

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