Description: Fetishes and Monuments : Afro-Brazillian Art and Culture in the Twentieth Century, Hardcover by Sansi, Roger, ISBN 1845453638, ISBN-13 9781845453633, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Fetishes and Monuments : Afro-Brazillian Art and Culture in the T
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Fetishes and Monuments : Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: Caribbean & Latin American, General, Black Studies (Global), Museum Studies, Subjects & Themes / Religious, Customs & Traditions, Sociology of Religion
Item Weight: 15.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Roger Sansi
Subject Area: Art, Social Science
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Remapping Cultural History Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
