Fetishes and Monuments e-bog
265,81 DKK
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One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candombl were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects, images, spaces and persons who embodied it, this book portrays the historical journey from weapon...
E-bog
265,81 DKK
Forlag
Berghahn Books
Udgivet
1 december 2007
Længde
224 sider
Genrer
1KLSB
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780857455406
One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candombl were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects, images, spaces and persons who embodied it, this book portrays the historical journey from weapons of sorcery looted by the police, to hidden living stones, to public works of art attacked by religious fanatics that see them as images of the Devil, former sorcerers who have become artists, writers, and philosophers. Addressing this history as a journey of objectification and appropriation, the author offers a fresh, unconventional, and illuminating look at questions of syncretism, hybridity and cultural resistance in Brazil and in the Black Atlantic in general.