Description: An ethnography of Afro-Brazilian religious traditions including Candomblé shows that the lines separating one tradition from another are much less fixed than anthropologists and Afro-Brazilian religious elites have maintained.
Review Quotes: "[T]he volume still stands admirably on its own. . . . [A] fascinating survey of the history of the field. . . . Capone is especially illuminating in her reading of anthropology and its reification of tradition. . . . Capone's frank reflections on the field are thought provoking and important. . . ."--Anadelia Romo "The Americas"