Sacred Leaves of Candombl? African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil【電子書籍】[ Robert A. Voeks ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Winner, Hubert Herring Book Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Candombl?, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcibly transplanted to the New World, they faced the challenge not only of maintaining their culture and beliefs in the face of European domination but also of finding plants with similar properties to the ones they had used in Africa.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This book traces the origin, diffusion, medicinal use, and meaning of Candombl?'s healing pharmacopoeiaーthe sacred leaves. Robert Voeks examines such topics as the biogeography of Africa and Brazil, the transferenceーand transformationーof Candombl? as its adherents encountered both native South American belief systems and European Christianity, and the African system of medicinal plant classification that allowed Candombl? to surviv．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る