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Searching for Africa in Brazil

Power and Tradition in Candomblé

by Stefania Capone · Lucy Lyall Grant (trans.)

An anthropological study, first published in French in 1999, of how ideas of African purity and tradition shape authority in Candomblé and Umbanda. Capone gives particular attention to the changing figure of Exu, from Yoruba messenger to the spirits of Umbanda and Quimbanda.

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