Sorcery objects under institutional tutelage

This essay returns to a discussion of two collections of objects taken from two terreiros (places of worship) for Afro-Brazilian cults, namely the Magia Negra (Black Magic) collection at the Museu da Polícia do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro Police Museum) and the Perseverança collection at the Inst...

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Main Authors: Ulisses N. Rafael, Yvonne Maggie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia 2013-10-01
Series:Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/vibrant/788