Vagner Gonçalves da Silva

Vagner Gonçalves da Silva is Professor of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo. He is Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the City University of New York, where he was also a visiting professor on a Fulbright Scholar Program. He develops research in Afro-Brazilian populations, focusing on topics such as Candomblé, Umbanda, Neo-Pentecostalism, religious intolerance, relations between religion and Brazilian culture, Afro-Brazilian arts, and ethnographic representation. He is author of Orishas of the Metropolis; Candomblé and Umbanda; The Anthropologist and His Magic; and Exu, An Afro-Atlantic God in Brazil. He serves as editor of Religious Intolerance and Afro-Brazilian Memory.

 

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