Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity

by Beatriz Gois Dantas

Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas's historioethnographic study available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.

Dantas compares the formation of Yoruba (Nago) religious traditions and ethnic identities in the Brazilian states of Sergipe and Bahia, revealing how they diverged from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807859753
• ISBN13: 9780807859759
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"