Cultural Agency in the Americas
Tradition, Transnationalism and Gender in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble
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Matory, JL
2006
The transnational influence of US feminist anthropologist Ruth Landes and Brazilian nationalist pride fueled homophobia in the treatment of male Candomble priests by the Brazilian state and bourgeoisie. The "cult matriarchy" identified by Ruth Landes in the 1930s was less an observation than a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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2006
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121 / 145
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Duke University Press
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Matory, J. L. (2006). Tradition, Transnationalism and Gender in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble. In . Sommer, Doris (Ed.), Cultural Agency in the Americas (pp. 121–145). Durham, NC and London, UK: Duke University Press.
Publication Date
2006
Start / End Page
121 / 145
Publisher
Duke University Press