Bastide ctd

slavery promoted syncretism within ABR¹ (67)

de-Africanization means of social ascension--> white civilization desirable² (68)

Young white children contact with black culture in casa grande³ (69)

Brazilian culture involves both a movement of creating separate cultures and of integrating them in a single mixed civilization⁴ (73)

focuses on the role of quilombos and religious developments within them⁵

1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 67.

2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 68.

3R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 69.

4R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 73.

5R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 78–96.