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Èṣù
- Title
- Èṣù / Juana Elbein dos Santos e Deoscoredes Maximiliano dos Santos, Mestre Didi Aṣipa.
- Author
- Santos, Juana Elbein dos
- Publication
- Salvador : Corrupio, 2014.
- ©2014
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- Description
- 166 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
- Summary
- "I have worked on two essays. One is an anthropological attempt to place Èṣù within the whole of the culture that in Bahia we call Nagô, the Yoruba of West Africa; the other approaches Èṣù as the driving principle of individual life"--Page [7].
- Alternative Title
- Èṣù/Exu/Eshu
- Subjects
- Note
- English translation by Henri Evans, Department of Modern Languages, University of Ibadan.
- "This work follows on 'West African Ritual and Sacred Art in Brazil' (Santos; Santos, 1967), a study completed in 1967. It is therefore, similarly, a comparative study of the religious system of the so-called Nagô in Brazil and its original elements in West Africa"--Page 16.
- The related 1967 work was issued under the title: West African sacred art and rituals in Brazil : a comparative study / Deoscoredes M. dos Santos (Mestre Didi). It was written with the collaboration of Juana Elbein, New York.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 166).
- Language (note)
- In Portuguese, English (translated from the Portuguese), and Yoruba, with oracular texts in Yoruba translated into Portuguese and English.
- Contents
- Èṣù bara láróyè = Exu bará laroiê : um estudo comparativo = Eshu bara laroye : a comparative study -- Exu bará : princípio da vida individual no sistema Nagô = Èṣù bara : principle of individual life in the Nagô system.
- ISBN
- 9788586551475
- 8586551473
- OCLC
- ocn897826281
- 897826281
- SCSB-1847334
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library