Fetishes and Monuments

Fetishes and MonumentsOne hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candombl 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 stones,

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