Fetishes and Monuments

Fetishes and Monuments
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9781845457112
ISBN-13 : 1845457110
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Book Synopsis Fetishes and Monuments by : Roger Sansi-Roca

Download or read book Fetishes and Monuments written by Roger Sansi-Roca and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé 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.


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