A maverick photographer who travelled the world in search of otherness, over time Verger became a prominent ethnographer, botanist and historian. He devoted fifty years of research to the black cultures of Brazil and Africa and to the transatlantic world of the Orisha and Vodun deities. Living in the field, initiated into diverse religious societies, he was reborn under the name of Fatumbi. A go-between of the Yoruba diaspora, Verger practiced an anti-colonial ethnology avant la lettre. This book is an anthropological essay, but also a cross-cultural portrait and the story of an extraordinary life. It provides a detailed analysis of the artistic and scientific work of Pierre Fatumbi Verger (1902-1996).
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Table of contents
- Pierre Fatumbi Verger
- Prelims Figures
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Text
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. A Method ‘by Default’?
- Chapter 2. The Relationship with the Other
- Chapter 3. The Place of the Image in Research
- Chapter 4. The Relationship to Writing
- Chapter 5. From African Fidelity to the ‘Invention of Tradition’
- Chapter 6. A First Initiatory Journey (up to 1948)
- Chapter 7. Initiations (from 1948)
- Chapter 8. The ‘Law of the Secret’
- Chapter 9. Between Self and Other
- Chapter 10. Initiatory Knowledge
- Final Thoughts
- References
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Names
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