Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa
Ilê Aiyê redefines itself within shifting political realities of the Brazilian mythic racial paradise. The globalization agenda of the tourism industry places its Africanized strategies in dialectical tension with State's funding. Deploying Yoruba performative cosmology and costumes, the disc...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
2016.
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| Colección: | African Histories and Modernities.
Springer eBooks. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34509380*spi |
| Sumario: | Ilê Aiyê redefines itself within shifting political realities of the Brazilian mythic racial paradise. The globalization agenda of the tourism industry places its Africanized strategies in dialectical tension with State's funding. Deploying Yoruba performative cosmology and costumes, the discussion of 'race' is inevitable as Ilê Aiyê questions the economically marginalizing status of Afro-Brazilians. |
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| Descripción Física: | XXVIII, 288 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781137598707 |
