Collins Revolt of the Saints

Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9570-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten

Anthropologist John F. Collins explores shifts in racial identification in Brazil by examining the transformation of a celebrated Afro-Brazilian neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil from a red light district into an idealized UNESCO World Heritage Site, wherein its residents were celebrated yet stigmatized and expelled.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, John F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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