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USANDO NOÇÕES DE BELEZA PARA RECORDAR E SER CONHECIDO NA REGIÃO DO GOLFO DE BENIM

2013; UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.12957/tecap.2013.10057

1981-9935

Adedoyin Teriba,

Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies

This article studies how the architecture of a group of Afro- Brazilian returnees to the Bight of Benin at the turn of the 20th century was an embodiment of a constellation of factors that were characteristic of their return . First was how the Afro- Brazilians ’ returnees re-shaped their social identities . Second was how the architecture embodied their simultaneous affiliations to different religions . Third was how their re-conceptions of beauty reinforced their new social identities and multiple religious affiliations .