Manipulating The Sacred: Yoruba Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomble.(Book review)

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Manipulating The Sacred Yoruba Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomble by Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. 208 pp., 44 b/w and 36 color illustrations, glossaries, bibliography, index. $29.95 softcover.

In Manipulating the Sacred: Yoruba Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomble, Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara imparts a wealth of information about Candomble Nago, the religion that has linked Yoruba-based practice in Bahia, Brazil, with Yoruba religion in West Africa since the eighteenth century. The author argues that ...

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