The University of North Carolina Press

208 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 2 figs., 4 tables, notes, bibl., index

Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução

Cloth

ISBN  978-0-8078-3177-9

Published: September 2009

Paper

ISBN  978-0-8078-5975-9

Published: September 2009

Nagô Grandma and White Papa

Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity

By Beatriz Góis Dantas

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About the Author

Beatriz Góis Dantas is professor emerita of anthropology at Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil. She is author or coauthor of three other books. Translator Stephen Berg lives in Brazil.

Reviews

"A recognized classic in the literature on African Brazilian religions, Nagô Grandma and White Papa is an important case study of social identity formation as a relational process involving the 'political' mobilization of cultural markers to define group differences. Dantas's book remains surprisingly relevant to current theoretical debates on these questions as well as to the area of African diaspora studies."
--Robert Slenes, Universidad Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

"Dantas brings together the practices of everyday believers, religious authorities, intellectuals, and elites to explore what Africa means in Brazil and how that meaning has changed over time. The depth, care, and sophistication of her research and analysis have made this book a model for a generation of scholarship in Brazil. Translation into English brings this imaginative work the broad audience it fully deserves."
--Mark Healey, University of California, Berkeley