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Fetishes and Monuments

Afro-Brazillian Art and Culture in the 20th Century

  • Hardback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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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.
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  • Title

    Fetishes and Monuments

  • Author

    Roger Sansi

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Berghahn Books

  • Published

    December 2007

  • Weight

    468g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781845453633

  • ISBN-10

    1845453638

  • Eden Code

    4650251

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