Gender, race, and life writing in the ethnography of Ruth Landes in Bahia
American anthropologist Ruth Landes (1908-1991) conducted ethnographic fieldwork in candomblé centers, terreiros, in Salvador, Bahia, in 1938-1939. In her book City of Women (1947) and journal articles she recorded her observations on matrifocality and gender variance and portrayed Afro-Brazilian cu...
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Main Author: | Sally Cole |
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Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2024-09-01
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Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/23077 |
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