Miguel Contreras Alonso
Biographic Data
| ID | 3905613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miguel Contreras Alonso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miguel Contreras |
| FAMILY NAME | Alonso |
| SIGNATURE | ALONSO M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0698-3461 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Dispersal of the Yoruba People
Motivated by an increase in the tobacco trade with the West African coast in the late eighteenth century, Brazilian merchants and slave traders shifted their base of operations away from their counterparts along the Mina Coast to the ports of Lagos, Badgary, and Porto Novo in the Bight of Benin.1 Soon afterward what became known as the Yoruba Wars began ensuring Brazilian ships with a seemingly limitless supply of captives bound for Salvador and …
The Reassertion of Male Participation in the Candomble Priesthood
After a yearlong battle with several undefined illnesses, Iyá Oba Biyi, as Mãe Aninha was known inside the temple walls, was aware her time on this earth was running short. Gathering the temple leadership to her side, she made preparations for her transformation and passage into the realm of the ancestors carefully arranging the clothes in which she wished to be buried.1 One day, after her passing on January 3, 1938, her body was transported by c…
The Development of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia, 1835–1986
This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to
La dinámica del territorio en la conurbación Concepción-Talcahuano: Huellas urbanas para una interpretación de las transformaciones ambientales durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX
Sin ahondar en los efectos ambientales en s mismos, se busca aqu dar una mirada en perspectiva a los procesos urbanos y las huellas que estos que van dejando en la impronta de la ciudad. A partir de ello, busca trazar algunas lneas sobre posibles hiptesis en torno a cmo, desde esta mirada, los discursos mismos del desarrollo pueden reproblematizarse y de este modo buscar tambin formas diferentes para entender y proponer, en el futuro, planes y pr…
The Development of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia, 1835–1986
This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to
La dinámica del territorio en la conurbación Concepción-Talcahuano: Huellas urbanas para una interpretación de las transformaciones ambientales durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX
Sin ahondar en los efectos ambientales en s mismos, se busca aqu dar una mirada en perspectiva a los procesos urbanos y las huellas que estos que van dejando en la impronta de la ciudad. A partir de ello, busca trazar algunas lneas sobre posibles hiptesis en torno a cmo, desde esta mirada, los discursos mismos del desarrollo pueden reproblematizarse y de este modo buscar tambin formas diferentes para entender y proponer, en el futuro, planes y pr…
The Dispersal of the Yoruba People
Motivated by an increase in the tobacco trade with the West African coast in the late eighteenth century, Brazilian merchants and slave traders shifted their base of operations away from their counterparts along the Mina Coast to the ports of Lagos, Badgary, and Porto Novo in the Bight of Benin.1 Soon afterward what became known as the Yoruba Wars began ensuring Brazilian ships with a seemingly limitless supply of captives bound for Salvador and …
The Reassertion of Male Participation in the Candomble Priesthood
After a yearlong battle with several undefined illnesses, Iyá Oba Biyi, as Mãe Aninha was known inside the temple walls, was aware her time on this earth was running short. Gathering the temple leadership to her side, she made preparations for her transformation and passage into the realm of the ancestors carefully arranging the clothes in which she wished to be buried.1 One day, after her passing on January 3, 1938, her body was transported by c…
The Development of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia, 1835–1986
This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to
Geography (4 works) · History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Yoruba (2 works)