A santa dos pretos: apropriações do culto de Santa Efigênia no Brasil colonial

The paper reflects over processes of cultural appropriation in the African Diaspora in the Americas. Analyzing the cult of Saint Iphigenia in Colonial Brazil, I seek to demonstrate that although the cult spread as part of the Carmelite Order´s project of evangelization, Africans and their descend...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson Jos\u00E9 M. de Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal da Bahia - Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais 2007-01-01
Series:Afro-Ásia
Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=77003507