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Sacred Leaves of Candomblé: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil
University of Texas Press, 1997 Paper: 978-0-292-78731-5 | Cloth: 978-0-292-78730-8 | eISBN: 978-0-292-79993-6 Library of Congress Classification BL2592.C35V64 1997 Dewey Decimal Classification 299.673
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Winner, Hubert Herring Book Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcibly transplanted to the New World, they faced the challenge not only of maintaining their culture and beliefs in the face of European domination but also of finding plants with similar properties to the ones they had used in Africa. This book traces the origin, diffusion, medicinal use, and meaning of Candomblé's healing pharmacopoeia—the sacred leaves. Robert Voeks examines such topics as the biogeography of Africa and Brazil, the transference—and transformation—of Candomblé as its adherents encountered both native South American belief systems and European Christianity, and the African system of medicinal plant classification that allowed Candomblé to survive and even thrive in the New World. This research casts new light on topics ranging from the creation of African American cultures to tropical rain forest healing floras. See other books on: Bahia (State) | Candomblé (Religion) | Candomblé | Caribbean & Latin American Studies | Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric See other titles from University of Texas Press |
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Sacred Leaves of Candomblé: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Texas Press, 1997
Paper: 978-0-292-78731-5
Cloth: 978-0-292-78730-8
eISBN: 978-0-292-79993-6
Paper: 978-0-292-78731-5
Cloth: 978-0-292-78730-8
eISBN: 978-0-292-79993-6
Winner, Hubert Herring Book Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies
Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcibly transplanted to the New World, they faced the challenge not only of maintaining their culture and beliefs in the face of European domination but also of finding plants with similar properties to the ones they had used in Africa.
This book traces the origin, diffusion, medicinal use, and meaning of Candomblé's healing pharmacopoeia—the sacred leaves. Robert Voeks examines such topics as the biogeography of Africa and Brazil, the transference—and transformation—of Candomblé as its adherents encountered both native South American belief systems and European Christianity, and the African system of medicinal plant classification that allowed Candomblé to survive and even thrive in the New World. This research casts new light on topics ranging from the creation of African American cultures to tropical rain forest healing floras.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
