Feitiço e fetiche no Atlântico moderno

Authors

  • Roger Sansi University of London; Goldsmiths College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012008000100005

Keywords:

sorcery, fetish, fetishism, Atlantic, Africa, historicity

Abstract

In this paper I propose to describe the historical process through which the discourse of feitiçaria and feitiço became the discourse of fetishism. First, I will analyze the discourse of feitiçaria in the lusophone worlds. Then, I will compare this discourse to the formation of Mandinga, an African term that generated an extremely popular form of sorcery in the lusophone Atlantic in the XVIII century. After that, we will see how the Portuguese term feitiço became the discourse of the fetish, and fetishism, in West Africa. Describing the transformations of the discourse of fetishism in the Atlantic, my proposal is to overcome the descriptions in terms of Diaspora, separating Africa as a place of origin, in confrontation to the Americas or Brazil as a place of the present and re-creation.

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Published

2008-01-01

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 1 (2008)

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How to Cite

Sansi, R. (2008). Feitiço e fetiche no Atlântico moderno . Revista De Antropologia, 51(1), 123-153. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012008000100005