Hearing the Mermaid's Song The Umbanda Religion in Rio de Janeiro

Name: Hearing the Mermaid's Song The Umbanda Religion in Rio de Janeiro
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ISBN: 9780826347336

ISBN-10: 0826347339

ISBN-13: 9780826347336

Edition: 2009

Authors: Lindsay Hale

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Based on personal experience as a participant and observer over nearly a decade, Hale explores the unique spiritual beliefs of this Afro-Brazilian religion originated in Rio de Janeiro in the early twentieth century.

Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 9/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.05" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Lindsay Hale is a social anthropologist who has carried out research on Umbanda and other Afro-Brazilian religions since 1986. He earned his PhD in 1994 at the University of Texas, Austin, and has taught anthropology and Latin American study courses there since 1995.