Revolt of the saints : memory and redemption in the twilight of Brazilian racial democracy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Collins, John F., 1965 April 19-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Blacks > Brazil > Salvador. Blacks. Race relations. Social conditions. Pelourinho (Salvador, Brazil) > Social conditions. Pelourinho (Salvador, Brazil) > Race relations. Brazil > Salvador. Brazil > Salvador > Pelourinho.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: being, through the archive
"The eighteenth battalion of love": failure and the dissemination of misinterpretation
Letters to the Amazons
Prostitution's bureaucracy: making up people in the "city of women"
A metaphysics for our time: Pelourinho properties, Bahian social bodies, and the shifting meanings of rams and fetuses
Treasure tales and national bodies: mystery and metaphor in Bahian life
"But madame, what if I should need to defecate in your neighborhood?"
"Chatty chatty mouth, you want to know your culture"
Conclusion: saints, not angels.