NO UNDERSKIRTS IN AFRICA: EDISON CARNEIRO AND THE "LINEAGES" OF AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIOUS ANTHROPOLOGY

Maggie, Yvonne

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ARTICLES • Sociol. Antropol. 05 (1) • Jan-Apr 2015 • https://doi.org/10.1590/2238-38752015v515 copy

NO UNDERSKIRTS IN AFRICA: EDISON CARNEIRO AND THE "LINEAGES" OF AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIOUS ANTHROPOLOGY ¹ 1 A first version of this essay was presented on the Free Course in Folklore and Popular Culture, held at the Centro Nacional de Folclore e Cultura Popular (CFCP) [National Center of Folklore and Popular Culture] in 2010, on the theme Biographies: cultural writings and trajectories. The encounter was the first step towards organizing the centenary celebrations of Edison Carneiro's birth in 2012. The following year, on the Postgraduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology at IFCS/UFRJ, Maria Laura Cavalcanti ran a series of talks on Edison Carneiro where I presented my by now more elaborated reflections. The following year I presented the text at the 28th Meeting of ABA in homage of Carneiro's birth centenary. These initiatives provided me with a wonderful opportunity to return to the topic that had pursued me ever since my initiation into anthropology. I wish to thank Claudia Márcia Ferreira and Maria Laura Cavalcanti. I also owe Maria Laura, Glaucia Villas Bô as and André Botelho thanks for their careful reading of my work. I thank Everton Rangel, who kindly transcribed my talk at PPGSA/IFCS. I also thank the anonymous referees for their useful suggestions. The omissions and mistakes are, of course, entirely my own responsibility.

NÃO HÁ ANÁGUAS NA ÁFRICA: EDISON CARNEIRO E AS "LINHAGENS" DA ANTROPOLOGIA DAS RELIGIÕES AFRO-BRASILEIRAS

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The article presents the folklorist, essayist, journalist and anthropologist Edison Carneiro (1912-1972) and situates him among the "lineages" or intellectual affiliations in the context of studies on Afro-Brazilian religious groups. Describing the life of Edison Carneiro, his relationship with American anthropologist Ruth Landes and his participation in the folkloric movement, I look to situate Carneiro among the various intellectual trends found within the study of Afro-Brazilian religions. I argue that the author occupied an ambiguous position in terms of the African presence in the constitution of Afro-Brazilian religions, showing close proximities to Ruth Landes, Franklin Frazier, Ruth Benedict, Donald Pierson and Robert Park on the one hand, and Melville Herskovitz, Roger Bastide and Arthur Ramos on the other. Carneiro's studies of Candomblé de Caboclo express this double bind.

Keywords:
Afro-Brazilian Religion; Edison Carneiro; Africa; Candomblé; Ruth Landes

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[1] Yvonne Maggie is a retired professor of the Department of Cultural Anthropology of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IFCS/UFRJ). Author of Guerra de orixá: um estudo de ritual e conflito (2001 [1975]), Medo do feitiço: relações entre magia e poder no Brasil (1992) and Raça como retórica: a construção da diferença (2002), the latter co-authored with Claudia Barcelos Rezende. Among other works, she co-edited with Peter Fry a facsimile edition of the Revista Brazileira 's publication of O animismo fetichista dos negros baianos by Raimundo Nina Rodrigues (2006). She also writes the blog "A vida como ela parece ser" for the Globo G1 website.