John F Collins

Revolt of the Saints

Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

John F. Collins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780822353065
• ISBN-10: 0822353067
• Artikelnr.: 41373704

Autorenporträt

John F. Collins

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Being, through the Archive  1
1. "The Eighteenth Battalion of Love": Failure and the Dissemination of
Misinterpretation  44
2. Letters to the Amazons  102
3. Prostitution's Bureaucracy: Making Up People in the "City of Women"  141
4. A Metaphysics for Our Time: Pelourinho Properties, Bahian Social Bodies,
and the Shifting Meanings of Rams and Fetuses  181
5. Treasure Tales and National Bodies: Mystery and Metaphor in Bahian Life 
215
6. "But Madame, What If I Should Need to Defecate in Your Neighborhood?" 
266
7. "Chatty Chatty Mouth, You Want to Know Your Culture"  305
Conclusion: Saints, Not Angels  345
Appendix: Acronyms Used  363
Notes  365
References  411
Index  443