Manipulating the Sacred : Yorùba Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomble - Mikelle S. Omari-Tunkara

Manipulating the Sacred

Yorùba Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomble

By: Mikelle S. Omari-Tunkara

Paperback | 1 December 2002

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The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended, African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals.

At a time when the art of the African diaspora has aroused much general interest for its multicultural dimensions, Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara contributes strikingly rich insights as a participant/observer in the African-based religions of Brazil. She focuses on the symbolism and function of ritual objects and costumes used in the Brazilian candomble (miniature "African" environments or temples) of the Bahia region, which combine Yoruba, Bantu/Angola, Caboclo, Roman Catholic, and/or Kardecist/Spiritist elements. An initiate herself with more than twenty years of study, the author is considered an insider, and has witnessed how practitioners manipulate the "sacred" to encode, in art and ritual, vital knowledge about meaning, values, epistemologies, and history. She demonstrates how this manipulation provides Brazilian descendents of slaves with a sense of agency -- with a link to their African heritage and a locus for resistance to the dominant Euro-Brazilian culture.

Manipulating the Sacred will be of value to students of art history, religion, anthropology, African American studies, and Latin American studies, and to the growing English-speaking community of initiates of African-based religions.

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. . . an extraordinarily interesting descriptive study of the history, social context, and practice of the African-Brazilian religion, Candombl?, in Bahia, Brazil. . . . the author describes in detail the symbolism and function of sacred objects and costume in Candombl? and argues persuasively that Candombl? affords initiates a valued link with their African heritage and a locus for resistance to the dominant Euro-Brazilian culture. . . . Omari's study contains a rich body of information not accessible in English and largely unknown by non-initiates of Candombl?."--Marion Jackson "Wayne State University "

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