Pierre Fatumbi Verger - Orixás [First original edition] - 1981

Very beautiful example of the very first original edition in black cloth binding, almost impossible to find today, published in 1981, a year before the French edition. 259 black-and-white photographs and text in Portuguese by Pierre Verger. Publisher's black cloth binding titled in red letters on the cover and spine, illustrated dust jacket. In excellent condition.

This is a very important work offered here in its original edition. In Brazil, this work subsequently went through up to five more paperback editions, and in 2018 the Fundação Pierre Verger published a new edition.

This work contributes to demonstrating the continuity of the religions of the Africans transplanted to Brazil and the identity of the cults practiced on both sides of the Atlantic. The Orixás are beings of divine essence that represent the forces of nature in this Vaudou religion.

Pierre Verger (1902-1996) was an indefatigable traveler-photographer and he also had activity as a researcher and teacher, but very quickly he dedicated the majority of his œuvre to the religions of the Gulf of Guinea and Afro-Brazilian religions. After studying Yoruba culture (an ethnic group of West Africa) and its influence on Brazil, Verger was initiated into the Candomblé religion, practiced its rituals and also bore the name Fatumbi (renascence). From 1946 Pierre Verger settled in Salvador de Bahia where he lived until the end of his life in 1996 in Bahia. Verger’s contributions to ethnology include numerous photographs, documents, conference or journal articles, books, and he was recognized by the University of the Sorbonne which awarded him the title of Doctor in 1966.

Impeccable copy apart from sunning on the back of the dust jacket. Careful shipment in protected packaging with guaranteed tracked delivery.

1.5 kg excluding packaging