Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic

Introduction: The Atlantic, between Scylla and Charybdis; N.P.Naro, R.S.Roca & D.H.Treece PART I: COLONIAL FORMATIONS The Fetish in the Lusophone Atlantic; R.S.Roca Kriol without Creoles: Afro-Atlantic Connections in the Guinea Bissau Region, 16th to 20th Centuries; P.J.Havik Historical Roots of Homosexuality in the Lusophone Atlantic; L.Mott PART II: MIGRATIONS AND COLONIAL CULTURES Atlantic Microhistories: Mobility, Personal Ties, and Slaving in the Black Atlantic World (Angola and Brazil); R.Ferreira Colonial Aspirations: Connecting Three Points of the Lusophone Black Atlantic; N.P.Naro Agudas from Benin: The "Brazilian" Identity as a Bridge to Citizenship; M.Guran Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde; K.Fikes African and Brazilian Altars in Lisbon: Some Considerations on the Reconfigurations of the Portuguese Religious Field; C.Saraiva PART III: HYBRIDITY, MULTICULTURALISM, AND RACIAL POLITICS History and Memory in Capoeira Lyrics from Bahia, Brazil; M.Rohrig Assunção The "Orisha Religion" between Syncretism and Reafricanization; S.Capone Undoing Brazil: Hybridity Versus Multiculturalism; P.Fry

Author: N. Naro
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/07/2007
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781349370030
ISBN10: 1349370037
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- History | Europe | Spain
- History | Latin America | General

About the Author
NANCY PRISCILLA NARO is Reader in Brazilian History, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College London, UK.

ROGER SANSI ROCA is Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmith's College, University of London, UK.

DAVID H. TREECE is Director of the Centre for the Study of Brazilian Culture and Society, and Camões Professor of Brazilian Studies, King's College London, UK.