A Refuge in Thunder Candombl' and Alternative Spaces of Blackness

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Slavery, Africanos Libertos and the Question of Black Presence in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
2. Salvador: The Urban Environment
3. The Bolsa de Mandinga and Calundu: Afro-Brazilian Religion as Fetish and Fetiçaria
4. "Dis Continuity," Context and Documentation: Origins and Interpretations of the Religion
5. The Nineteenth-Century Development of Candomblé
6. Healing and Cultivating Axé: Profiles of Candomblé Leaders and Communities
7. Networks of Support, Spaces of Resistance: Alternative Orientations of Black Life in Nineteenth-Century Bahia
8. Candomblé as Feitiço: Reterritorialization, Embodiment and the Alchemy of History in an Afro-Brazilian Religion
Coda: Abolition, Freedom and Candomblé as Alternative Cidadania in Brazil.
Glossary
Appendix: Selected Documents from the Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia
Notes
Bibliography