Spirit possession and cultural innovation: the case of two Japanese female religious leaders

Authors

  • Ordep J. Trindade-Serra Trindade-Serra Universidade Federal da Bahia. Departamento de Antropologia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/1678-9857.ra.1995.111439

Keywords:

afro-brazilian cults, Jorge Amado, synchretism, symbolic anthropology.

Abstract

Jorge Amado, one of lhe most renowned brazilian writers, has in many of his novels focused thc afrobrazilian cult named candomblé, as it is practised in Bahia. We can say that a great deal of the more generalized ideas about bahian candomblé owe to Amado's novels their world widespread diffusion. But of course Amado's presentation of this cult is not a documentary, ethnographic report. His literary interpretation of candomblé symbolic system deserves anthopological consideration; particulary Amado's personal envolvement with lhe candomblé's world is to be studied from an anthropological point of view: though he defines himself as an atheist, Amado has taken a firm stand as a champion of the synchretim between catholic and afrobrazilian rites. This paper deals with Amado's treatment of catholic and afrobrazilian synchretism in his novels Tenda dos milagres and O sumiço da santa.

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  • Ordep J. Trindade-Serra Trindade-Serra, Universidade Federal da Bahia. Departamento de Antropologia
    Depto. de Antropologia - UFBa

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Published

1995-06-18

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Vol. 38 No. 1 (1995)

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Trindade-Serra, O. J. T.-S. (1995). Spirit possession and cultural innovation: the case of two Japanese female religious leaders. Revista De Antropologia, 38(1), 101-168. https://doi.org/10.11606/1678-9857.ra.1995.111439