Robert A. Voeks is Professor of Geography at California State University, Fullerton.

FIGURES


NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY


PREFACE


1 INTRODUCTION


2 THE BAHIAN LANDSCAPE


3 INDIANS AND AFRICANS


4 RELIGION OF THE ORIXÁS


5 CANDOMBLE MEDICINE


8 AFRICAN RELIGION IN THE AMERICAS


APPENDICES


HOUSE ABÔ FOR THREE CANDOMBLÉ TERREIROS

NOTES


GLOSSARY


REFERENCES CITED


GENERAL INDEX


INDEX OF SCIENTIFIC NAMES




6 MEDICINAL PLANT CLASSIFICATION


7 THE CANDOMBLE FLORA

"Fascinating because it brings together in a single book information drawn widely from the several disciplines of geography, botany, history, and anthropology to provide an account of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble... In a competent and readable manner." Sandra Lauderdale Graham, author of House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

Fascinating because it brings together in a single book information drawn widely from the several disciplines of geography, botany, history, and anthropology to provide an account of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé... in a competent and readable manner. (Sandra Lauderdale Graham, author of House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro)