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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal da Bahia - Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais
2007-01-01
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| Series: | Afro-Ásia |
| Online Access: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=77003507 |
| Summary: | 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 descendants
had another reading of the Catholic symbols that grew out of original cultural
codes that were recreated within the environment of captivity |
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| ISSN: | 0002-0591 1981-1411 |