City of Women - Brossura

Landes, Ruth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0826315569 ISBN 13: 9780826315564

Casa editrice: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 2006

Riassunto

The City of Women, first published in 1947, is anthropologist Ruth Landes's study of candomble religious society in Brazil just before World War II. Afro-Brazilian candomble is a woman-centered, spirit possession religion developed by West African slaves in colonial plantation societies. Abandoning the scientific concept of culture that dominated anthropology in her time, Landes lets Brazil speak to her on its own terms. In The City of Women, she draws portraits of the priestesses and other women she visited in private homes and observed in candomble temples, all nuanced by her awareness of gender, race, and sexuality. Marketed as an exotic travelogue and dismissed by anthropologists when it appeared in 1947, The City of Women is now considered a classic of postmodern anthropology and a basic primary source for candomble studies.

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L'autore:

Ruth Landes (1908-1991) was a professor of anthropology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0826315569
• ISBN 13: 9780826315564
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 287