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Notas sobre o culto aos orixás e voduns na Bahia de Todos os Santos, no Brasil, e na antiga Costa dos Escravos, na África

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O livro parte do culto aos orixás e voduns, na Bahia e compara-o com a tradição religiosa dos yoruba (Nigéria) e djè djè (Daomé), de onde se originou. Descreve os rituais de iniciação, o estado de transe, os orixás e voduns e outros deuses menos conhecidos. Anexos e Apêndices ampliam as informações contidas nos capítulo.

615 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

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Pierre Verger

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Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, alias Fatumbi or Fátúmbí, was a photographer, self-taught ethnographer, and babalawo (Yoruba priest of Ifa) who devoted most of his life to the study of the African diaspora — the slave trade, the African-based religions of the new world, and the resulting cultural and economical flows from and to Africa.

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