Revolt of the saints : memory and redemption in the twilight of Brazilian racial democracy /
Anthropologist John F. Collins explores shifts in racial identification in Brazil by examining the transformation of a celebrated Afro-Brazilian neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil from a red light district into an idealized UNESCO World Heritage Site, wherein its residents were celebrated yet stigmati...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: being, through the archive
- "The eighteenth battalion of love": failure and the dissemination of misinterpretation
- Letters to the Amazons
- Prostitution's bureaucracy: making up people in the "city of women"
- A metaphysics for our time: Pelourinho properties, Bahian social bodies, and the shifting meanings of rams and fetuses
- Treasure tales and national bodies: mystery and metaphor in Bahian life
- "But madame, what if I should need to defecate in your neighborhood?"
- "Chatty chatty mouth, you want to know your culture"
- Conclusion: saints, not angels.
