The Formation of Candomblé: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil

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contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xix Note on Names and Abbreviations xxi Abbreviations xxiii 1 Between Two Coasts 1 Nations, Ethnicities, Ports, and the Slave Trade 2 The Formation of a Jeje Ethnic Identity in Bahia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 35 3 From Calundu to Candomblé 67 The Formative Process of Afro-Brazilian Religion 4 The Jeje Contribution to the Institutionalization of Candomblé in the Nineteenth Century 87 5 Bogum and Roça de Cima 124 The Parallel History of Two Jeje Terreiros in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 6 Leadership and Internal Dynamic of the Bogum and Seja Hundé Terreiros in the Twentieth Century 159 7 The Jeje Pantheon and Its Transformations 208 8 The Ritual 244 Characteristics of the Jeje-Mahi Liturgy in Bahia Conclusion 291 Glossary 297 Notes 301 Bibliography 351 Index 369 This page intentionally left blank figures, illustrations, maps, and tables figure 1 Jeje-Nagô and Mundubi-Mahi aggregation processes within the Jeje-Mahi Terreiros 224 illustrations In the Rio Vermelho region 131 Warehouses in the city of Cachoeira 139 Pejigã Seu Miguel . . . 163 Maria Epifania dos Santos, Sinhá Abalhe 168 Ambrósio Bispo Conceição, Ogã Boboso 169 Bernardino Ferreira dos Santos, pejigã of Seja Hundé 170 Maria Emiliana da Piedade 176 Luiza Franquelina da Rocha, Gaiaku Luiza 178 Maria Romana Moreira, Romaninha de Pó 181 Vicente Paulo dos Santos, Humbono Vicente 182 Valentina Maria dos Anjos, Doné Runhó 184 Runhó’s Sirrum: Mãe Nicinha . . . 186 Evangelista dos Anjos Costa, Doné Gamo Lokosi 187 The visit of Hunon Dagbo to Bogum 188 Sideview of the Bogum terreiro before the restoration of the roof 199 Manuel Falefá . . . 202 maps 1 The Gbe-speaking area and its principal ethnic groups 8 2 Migrations of the Adja 10 3 The Gbe-speaking area and its glossonyms 13 4 The Mahi country 17 5 The site of the Bogum terreiro 196 tables 1 Ethnoracial Composition of the Slave Population in the TobaccoProducing Area of Cachoeria (1698–1820) 36 2 Ethnoracial Composition of the Slave Population in the SugarProducing Areas of São Francisco do Conde and Santo Amaro da Purificação, 1750–1820 37 3 Ethnoracial Composition of the Slave Population, Salvador, 1702–1850 43 4 Ethnoracial Composition of Freed Persons, Salvador, 1799–1850 44 5 Seja Hundé Leadership 160 6 Bogum Leadership 173 7 Statistics of Jeje Terreiros in Salvador 206 8 Basic Structure of the Ritual Cycle in the Jeje-Mahi Terreiros of Cachoeira 266 ...