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Manipulating the Sacred - Yoruba Art, Ritual and Resistance in Brazilian Candomble (Paperback, illustrated edition) Loot Price: R988
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Manipulating the Sacred - Yoruba Art, Ritual and Resistance in Brazilian Candomble (Paperback, illustrated edition): Mikelle S....

Manipulating the Sacred - Yoruba Art, Ritual and Resistance in Brazilian Candomble (Paperback, illustrated edition)

Mikelle S. Omari-Tukara

Series: African American Life Series

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The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended, African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals.

At a time when the art of the African diaspora has aroused much general interest for its multicultural dimensions, Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara contributes strikingly rich insights as a participant/observer in the African-based religions of Brazil. She focuses on the symbolism and function of ritual objects and costumes used in the Brazilian candomble (miniature "African" environments or temples) of the Bahia region, which combine Yoruba, Bantu/Angola, Caboclo, Roman Catholic, and/or Kardecist/Spiritist elements. An initiate herself with more than twenty years of study, the author is considered an insider, and has witnessed how practitioners manipulate the "sacred" to encode, in art and ritual, vital knowledge about meaning, values, epistemologies, and history. She demonstrates how this manipulation provides Brazilian descendents of slaves with a sense of agency -- with a link to their African heritage and a locus for resistance to the dominant Euro-Brazilian culture.

Manipulating the Sacred will be of value to students of art history, religion, anthropology, African American studies, and Latin American studies, and to the growing English-speaking community of initiates of African-based religions.

General

Imprint: Wayne State University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: African American Life Series
Release date: October 2005
First published: August 2002
Authors: Mikelle S. Omari-Tukara
Dimensions: 230 x 158 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 212
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2852-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Art of indigenous peoples
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Religious subjects depicted in art
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Ethnic or tribal religions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Ethnic or tribal religions > General
LSN: 0-8143-2852-0
Barcode: 9780814328521

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