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Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century

Hardcover • 2009

Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century

By Roger Sansi

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One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomble 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 religiou...Show more

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9781845457112

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2009

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Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century

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