This demonstration tape features a recording and discussion of the first few minutes of an all night segment of a week-long Orisha feast which included animal sacrifices. The tape, which is representative of the research ...

The author seeks to analyse the relationships between religion and culture in Latin America, especially in Brazil, highlighting the fact that the different religions enjoy diverse relationships with culture in a single ...

Taped conference proceedings. Papers presented at the conference were as follows: African Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and Tobago after Emancipation (Maureen Warner-Lewis); New World Slave Experience up to Emancipation ...

Andrew Beddeau, who was bom in 1920, was a popular Orisha priest, African drummer, traditional masquerader and folk performer in a variety of forms.

Viola Gopaul-Whittington, born in 1924 in Arouca, was a descendant of African and Indian antecedents. She claimed that the marriage of her great-grand-patents was the first of its kind between an Indian and an African in ...

This thesis is related to the master of religious studies, the research line: Brazilian religious field, culture and society. It aims to analyze the social representations of african-Brazilian religions, presented by ...

This thesis is related to the master of religious studies, the research line: Brazilian religious field, culture and society. It aims to analyze the social representations of african-Brazilian religions, presented by ...

This is an exploratory qualitative monografhy and has as its theme the religious archives, other beliefs and religions of African origin and their importance in the transmission of knowledge and archival practices. The ...