Roger Sansi-Roca
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 90112 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Roger Sansi-Roca |
| PRENOMES | Roger |
| SOBRENOME | Sansi-Roca |
| ASSINATURA | SANSI-ROCA R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | King's College London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic
This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how it has been shaped by diverse coloni
Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic
Introduction
After decades of obsession with “difference,” historians, anthropologists, and other students of culture are directing their gaze to the seas and oceans as historical spaces of cultural production. Hidden dangers abound because, as historical and cultural spaces, the seas possess no visible boundaries, no inscribed landmarks, and no entitled owners; such dangers can and do, however, afford new opportunities. The seas loom up as seamless wholes th…
The Fetish in the Lusophone Atlantic
The term "fetish" has a long and complex story bound to the history of the Atlantic. It originates from the Portuguese term feitiço, magic charm, and feitiçaria (sorcery). The Portuguese recogniz ed many of the ritual practices they encountered in Africa as forms of sorcery. References to the fetish date from the seventeenth century, in Dutch and English travel accounts of the West Coast of Africa. Travelers often misrecognized the Portuguese ori…
Fetishes and Monuments
One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects, images, spaces and persons who embodied it, this book portrays the historical journey from weapons of sorcery looted by the police, to hidden living s…
The Hidden Life of Stones
In the last century, the objects of Candomblé, a religion of African origin in Bahia, suffered radical transformations in their public value. After discussing in general terms the life of 'saint' stones ( otã) in Candomblé, this article then focuses on the traces of the life history of one of these otã. This stone was seized in a police raid in a Candomblé house, and then displayed in a museum, until a legal action recently undertaken by politica…
The Hidden Life of Stones
In the last century, the objects of Candomblé, a religion of African origin in Bahia, suffered radical transformations in their public value. After discussing in general terms the life of 'saint' stones ( otã) in Candomblé, this article then focuses on the traces of the life history of one of these otã. This stone was seized in a police raid in a Candomblé house, and then displayed in a museum, until a legal action recently undertaken by politica…
The Hidden Life of Stones
In the last century, the objects of Candomblé, a religion of African origin in Bahia, suffered radical transformations in their public value. After discussing in general terms the life of 'saint' stones ( otã) in Candomblé, this article then focuses on the traces of the life history of one of these otã. This stone was seized in a police raid in a Candomblé house, and then displayed in a museum, until a legal action recently undertaken by politica…
Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic
This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how it has been shaped by diverse coloni
Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic
Introduction
After decades of obsession with “difference,” historians, anthropologists, and other students of culture are directing their gaze to the seas and oceans as historical spaces of cultural production. Hidden dangers abound because, as historical and cultural spaces, the seas possess no visible boundaries, no inscribed landmarks, and no entitled owners; such dangers can and do, however, afford new opportunities. The seas loom up as seamless wholes th…
The Fetish in the Lusophone Atlantic
The term "fetish" has a long and complex story bound to the history of the Atlantic. It originates from the Portuguese term feitiço, magic charm, and feitiçaria (sorcery). The Portuguese recogniz ed many of the ritual practices they encountered in Africa as forms of sorcery. References to the fetish date from the seventeenth century, in Dutch and English travel accounts of the West Coast of Africa. Travelers often misrecognized the Portuguese ori…
Fetishes and Monuments
One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects, images, spaces and persons who embodied it, this book portrays the historical journey from weapons of sorcery looted by the police, to hidden living s…
Geography (5 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 obras) · Art (2 obras) · Black People (2 obras) · Blacks (2 obras) · Blacks (2 obras) · History (2 obras)