Analisa a relação milenar entre religião e política no mundo islâmico. Aborda a fundação da religião muçulmana pelo profeta Maomé, a era dos califas, o Império Otomano, a ameaça representada pelos cruzados, a dominação colonial européia e a intensificação dos conflitos entre ori…
"Exemplary study, based on author's dissertation in anthropology (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1994), focuses on social aspects of the urban samba, offering an account of the genre's early popularity. The dissemination of samba as a national product of Brazil in the 1930s-40…
"Exemplary study, based on author's dissertation in anthropology (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1994), focuses on social aspects of the urban samba, offering an account of the genre's early popularity. The dissemination of samba as a national product of Brazil in the 1930s-40…