The Atlantic world and the establishment of the Nago hegemony in the Bahian Candomble

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  • Luis Nicolau Parés UFBA

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2010v17n23p165

Abstract

Historical data indicates that critical Jeje and Nagô religious practices of West African origin were already well consolidated in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil) in the 1860s, suggesting their rooting in the period of the slave-trade. While the Yoruba ethnogenesis and the racial and cultural nationalism of the “Lagosian Renaissance” in the 1890s may have indirectly contributed to the late 19th-century Bahian “Nagôization” of Candomblé, the paper suggests that the increasing religious predominance of the Nagô “nation” was mainly the result of competitive local Creole micro-politics.

Author Biography

Luis Nicolau Parés, UFBA

Professor de Antropologia na Universidade Federal da Bahia.

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2010-06-28

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Parés, L. N. (2010). The Atlantic world and the establishment of the Nago hegemony in the Bahian Candomble. Esboços: Histories in Global Contexts, 17(23), 165–186. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2010v17n23p165

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Vol. 17 No. 23 (2010)

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