Narratives and Afro-Muslim conflict in Brazil: culture and struggle for desires and powers

This article, by excavating narratives, suggests the reading of lifestyles and beliefs shared in the difference. By shedding light in the idea of culture as a signifying practice, the review of accounts given by an Iraqi leader of a trip to Brazil (1865) calls into question narratives about a cultur...

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Main Author: Fernando Resende
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2014-06-01
Series:Matrizes
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.usp.br/matrizes/article/view/82939