One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomble 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, images, spaces and persons who
embodied it, this book portrays the historical journey from weapons
of sorcery looted by the police, to hidden living stones, to public
works of art attacked by religious fanatics that see them as images
of the Devil, former sorcerers who have become artists, writers,
and philosophers. Addressing this history as a journey of
objectification and appropriation, the author offers a fresh,
unconventional, and illuminating look at questions of syncretism,
hybridity and cultural resistance in Brazil and in the Black
Atlantic in general.
Roger Sansi is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmith's
College, London .He has conducted research on Afro-Brazilian art
and culture in Brazil. Recently he has worked on the history of the
term "fetish" in the Lusophone Black Atlantic."
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