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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société des américanistes 2024-09-01
Series:Journal de la Société des Américanistes
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/23077
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