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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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
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title A santa dos pretos: apropriações do culto de Santa Efigênia no Brasil colonial
title_short A santa dos pretos: apropriações do culto de Santa Efigênia no Brasil colonial
title_full A santa dos pretos: apropriações do culto de Santa Efigênia no Brasil colonial
title_fullStr A santa dos pretos: apropriações do culto de Santa Efigênia no Brasil colonial
title_full_unstemmed A santa dos pretos: apropriações do culto de Santa Efigênia no Brasil colonial
title_sort santa dos pretos: apropriações do culto de santa efigênia no brasil colonial
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description 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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