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Candomblé / José Medeiros.

Title
Candomblé / José Medeiros.
Author
Medeiros, José
Publication
[São Paulo, Brazil] : Instituto Moreira Salles, 2009.

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Description
110 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
Summary
The following book reproduces in facsimile the 1957 edition of the book titled "Candomblé" and includes for the first time the original 52 photographs (without cutting) taken by photojournalist José Medeiros (b. Brazil 1921-1990) to document with texts and a photo series the candomblé initiation ritual practiced by the Indians of the Xingu of Bahia. The present edition an important visual anthropological document of Afro-Brazilian cults, specially now that negatives of the photographs are lost. All photographs are from the holdings of the Institute.
Subject
  • Afro-Brazilian cults > Pictorial works
  • Bahia (Brazil : State) > Religious life and customs > Pictorial works
  • Black people > Bahia (State) > Pictorial works
  • Candomblé (Religion) > Bahia (State) > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
Pictorial works
Note
  • "Na parte inicial ... imagens constantes da edição de 1957 ... perfazendo ao todo 52 fotografias ... Na segunda parte ... conjunto de 15 fotografias realizadas entre 1951 e 1957, e não incluídas na seleção original ..."--P. 7-8.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9788586707315
  • 8586707317
LCCN
^^2009342134
OCLC
317559405
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library