Title
Searching For Africa In Brazil: Power And Tradition In Candombl,Used
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Searching for Africa in Brazil is a learned exploration of tradition and change in AfroBrazilian religions. Focusing on the convergence of anthropologists and religious leaders exegeses, Stefania Capone argues that twentiethcentury anthropological research contributed to the construction of an ideal AfroBrazilian religious orthodoxy identified with the Nag (Yoruba) cult in the northeastern state of Bahia. In contrast to other researchers, Capone foregrounds the agency of Candombl leaders. She demonstrates that they successfully imposed their vision of Candombl on anthropologists, reshaping in their own interest narratives of AfroBrazilian religious practice. The anthropological narratives were then taken as official accounts of religious orthodoxy by many practitioners of AfroBrazilian religions in Brazil. Capone draws on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in Salvador de Bahia and Rio de Janeiro as she demonstrates that there is no pure or orthodox AfroBrazilian religion.Challenging the usual interpretations of AfroBrazilian religions as fixed entities, completely independent of one another, Capone reveals these practices as parts of a unique religious continuum. She does so through an analysis of ritual variations as well as discursive practices. To illuminate the continuum of AfroBrazilian religious practice and the tensions between exegetic discourses and ritual practices, Capone focuses on the figure of Exu, the sacred African trickster who allows communication between gods and men. Following Exu and his avatars, she discloses the centrality of notions of prestige and powermystical and religiousin AfroBrazilian religions. To explain how religious identity is constantly negotiated among social actors, Capone emphasizes the agency of practitioners and their political agendas in the return to roots, or reAfricanization, movement, an attempt to recover the original purity of a mythical and legitimizing Africa.
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