Visualizing the sacred: Video technology "televisual" style, and the religious imagination in Bahian candomblé

American Ethnologist

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 444-461

  van de Port, Mattijs P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Bahia; Condombl ; Media; Religion; Style; Video

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745918895     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2006.33.3.444     Document Type: Article

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