Sökning: "Afro-Brazilian religion"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Afro-Brazilian religion.

1. 1. The Stick and the Calabash : Building gods in Bahian Candomblé

   Författare :Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen; Mattias Gardell; Inger Sjørslev; Diana Espírito Santo; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Afro-Brazilian religion; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

   Sammanfattning : Practitioners of the Brazilian religion Candomblé frequently explain syncretism with a myth about how slaves camouflaged the cult of their embodied African gods behind the worship of icons of Catholic saints. The myth is multivalent and here I try to see it as a mapping of how Candomblistas operate hybridity in their construction of deities. LÄS MER

3. 2. Flowers to the Ocean

   Författare :Marta Cuesta; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; modernity; authenticity; flexibility; gender; ethnicity; identity; fieldwork; religion; Candomblé; Brazil; Bahia; Sociology; Sociologi;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this book is to grasp the presence of Candomblé in the Brazilian society and more specifically in the city of Salvador da Bahia. Candomblé is an Afro-Brazilian religion practised by approximately thirty five million Brazilians, today. Brazil is a country whose cultural diversity is characterised by social contrasts. LÄS MER

4. 3. A língua de Camões com Iemanjá : Forma e funções da linguagem do candomblé

   Författare :Laura Alvarez López; Lars Fant; Klaus Zimmermann; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Brazilian Portuguese; Afro-Bahian culture and speech varieties; ethnography of communication; ethnolinguistic vitality; linguistic attitudes and ideologies; relationship to creolization; language and identity; lexicology; Romance languages; Romanska språk;

   Sammanfattning : The present thesis addresses the relationship between the structure and social functions of language through the study of an Afro-Brazilian Portuguese speech community. The adopted methodological, analytical, and theoretical standpoints have their origin in linguistic anthropology, social psychology of language and discourse analysis. LÄS MER

5. 4. Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place

   Författare :Alice Sundman; Bo G. Ekelund; Tanja Staehler; Angelyn L. Mitchell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Toni Morrison; place; placial relations; writing; manuscripts; archive; Toni Morrison Papers; text and avant-texte; genetic criticism; phenomenology; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the writing of place in Toni Morrison’s fiction, focusing primarily on the novels Beloved (1987), Paradise (1998), and A Mercy (2008). It analyses particular instances of written places in these works in a twofold way, namely, how place is foregrounded through literary means in the text and how place has emerged in a process of shaping. LÄS MER