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Landscape semaphore: Seeing mud and mangroves in the Brazilian Northeast

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 626-641, September 2021., 2021
In 20th‐century Northeast Brazilian representations of the landscape of the estuarine Atlantic coast we find a re‐calibration of perspective that is foreshortened, embodied, and muddied. These works produce a counter‐hegemonic political aesthetics of nature that unsettles the fixities of colonial ways of seeing space, nature, and territory.
Archie Davies
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Blessed Beats: Religious Profanation and Evangelical Syncretization from Samba to Carnaval Gospel

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 324-353, June 2021., 2021
Abstract This article examines Evangelical carnaval in Brazil to argue that anthropological writing on syncretization expresses a theoretical gap or shortcoming. In several large Brazilian cities, Evangelicals are currently organizing carnaval parades and performing samba music with percussion instruments.
Martijn Oosterbaan
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Pesquisas e relatos das culturas infantis na Umbanda e Candomblé: 2014 a 2016

Revista Calundu, 2018
O artigo apresenta questões de como a infância é vista e cuidada nas Religiões Umbanda e Candomblé. O objetivo é evidenciar a posição da infância como categoria geracional, nas Religiões da Umbanda e Candomblé e refletir sobre as culturas infantis ...
Catia Regina Gutman
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A Review of Infectious Diseases Associated with Religious and Nonreligious Rituals

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021
Rituals are an integral part of human life but a wide range of rituals (both religious and non‐religious), from self‐flagellation to blood brotherhood to ritual sprinkling of holy water, have been associated with transmission of infections. These infections include angiostrongyliasis, anthrax, brucellosis, cholera, COVID‐19, cutaneous larva migrans ...
Kiran Gajurel, Stan Deresinski, Massimiliano Lanzafame   +2 more
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Deuses africanos no Brasil contemporâneo (introdução sociológica ao candomblé de hoje) [PDF]

Horizontes Antropológicos
Resumo O candomblé formou-se no Brasil no século passado como religião de preservação de patrimônio étnico dos escravos negros e seus descendentes. Dele originou-se mais tarde a umbanda, religião sem fronteiras raciais.
Reginaldo Prandi
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Food in African Brazilian Candomblé

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2015
The aim of this article is to highlight the importance of food in the rituals of African Brazilian Candomblé, as well as in its cosmovision (world view).
Patricia Souza
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Referentes identificatórios e jogos identitários no candomblé

Ciencias Sociales y Religión, 2020
Nesse artigo, evidenciamos um conjunto de “referentes identificatórios” presentes no idioma do Candomblé e apresentamos uma discussão sobre as formas pelas quais as pessoas utilizam esses elementos para construir suas identidades de forma progressiva e ...
Mônica de Oliveira Nunes
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A cultura dos terreiros. Um estudo de caso no candomblé na Bahia

Revista de Antropologia, 1996
By considering "candomblé" as the culture of a place , this article tries to surpass the simple opposition between the notion or "candomblé" as an ethnic religion, and lhe notion of "candomblé" as a service offered in an indistinct religious market.
Michel Agier
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Quando a “Avamunha” não bate: o conflito como aspecto estruturante do Candomblé em Portugal

Antropolítica : Revista Contemporânea de Antropologia, 2020
The transnationalization of Candomblé to Portugal represents a strong process of religious reconfiguration that has been a matter of discussion in the anthropological literature.
João Ferreira Dias
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Candomblé(s) e espaço público na Ilha de Itaparica, Bahia

Religião e Sociedade, 2015
Resumo Neste artigo tomamos os conceitos de religião e espaço público como domínios relacionais. A partir dessa abordagem, seguimos as propostas de van de Port no que se refere à circularidade do candomblé de orixá no espaço público baiano, buscando ...
Fátima Tavares, Carlos Caroso
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