{"id":3603,"date":"2009-12-04T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2013-02-09T01:12:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T01:12:34","slug":"nago-grandma-and-white-papa-candomble-and-the-creation-of-afro-brazilian-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3603","title":{"rendered":"Nag\u00f4 Grandma and White Papa: Candombl\u00e9 and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=1638\" target=\"_blank\">Nag\u00f4 Grandma and White Papa: Candombl\u00e9 and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of North Carolina Press<br \/>\n<\/a>September 2009<br \/>\n208 pages<br \/>\n6.125 x 9.25, 2 figs., 4 tables, notes, bibl., index<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3177-9<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5975-9<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pt.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beatriz_G%C3%B3is_Dantas\" target=\"_blank\">Beatriz G\u00f3is Dantas<\/a><\/strong>, Professor Emerita of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Translated by Stephen Berg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=1638\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu\/images\/jackets\/large\/dantas_nago.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Nag\u00f4 Grandma and White Papa<\/em> is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz G\u00f3is Dantas&#8217;s historioethnographic study available to English-speaking audiences for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Dantas compares the formation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yoruba_religion\" target=\"_blank\">Yoruba<\/a> (Nag\u00f4) religious traditions and ethnic identities in the Brazilian states of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sergipe\" target=\"_blank\">Sergipe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bahia\" target=\"_blank\">Bahia<\/a>, revealing how they diverged from each other due to their different social and political contexts and needs. By tracking how markers of supposedly &#8220;pure&#8221; ethnic identity and religious practice differed radically from one place to another, Dantas shows the social construction of identity within a network of class-related demands and alliances. She demonstrates how the shape and meaning of &#8220;purity&#8221; have been affected by prolonged and complex social and cultural mixing, compromise, and struggle over time. Ethnic identity, as well as social identity in general, is formed in the crucible of political relations between social groups that purposefully mobilize and manipulate cultural markers to define their respective boundaries&#8211;a process, Dantas argues, that must be applied to understanding the experience of African-descended people in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nag\u00f4 Grandma and White Papa: Candombl\u00e9 and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity University of North Carolina Press September 2009 208 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 2 figs., 4 tables, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3177-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5975-9 Beatriz G\u00f3is Dantas, Professor Emerita of Anthropology Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil Translated by Stephen Berg Nag\u00f4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,83,21,459,125,8,17,820,394],"tags":[1418,667,1419],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-religion","category-socialscience","tag-beatriz-gois-dantas","tag-university-of-north-carolina-press","tag-yoruba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}