African-Brazilian culture and regional identity in Bahia, Brazil /

This book examines how in the middle of the twentieth century, Bahian elites began to recognize African-Bahian cultural practices as essential components of Bahian regional identity. Previously, public performances of traditionally African-Bahian practices such as capoeira, samba, and Candomblé dur...

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Author / Creator: Ickes, Scott.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
Series:New World diasporas series.
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