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Pages: 99
Authors: Meredith A. Ahlberg
Categories: Bahia (Brazil : State)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher:

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In Brazil, images and ideas of Africa have been historically linked to the northeastern state of Bahia, more specifically with the former colonial capital and p
Dancing Bahia
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Lucía M. Suárez
Categories: African diaspora
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Intellect (UK)

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Dancing Bahia is an edited collection that draws together the work of leading scholars, artists, and dance activists from Brazil, Canada, and the United States
African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil
Language: pt
Pages: 341
Authors: Scott Ickes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-06 - Publisher: University Press of Florida

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Examines how in the middle of the twentieth century, Bahian elites began to recognize African-Bahian cultural practices as essential components of Bahian region
Mama Africa
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Patricia de Santana Pinho
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-25 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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An examination of the meanings of blackness in the Brazilian state of Bahia, which is often called the most African part of Brazil.
Dancing Wisdom
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Yvonne Daniel
Categories: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Concentrating on the Caribbean Basin and the coastal area of northeast South America, Yvonne Daniel considers three African-derived religious systems that rely