Ilustrations

1. 1.1Postcard sent by Ruth Landes to Arthur Ramos, 1938 (front) 70
2. 1.2Postcard sent by Ruth Landes to Arthur Ramos, 1938 (back) 70
3. 1.3Postcard, “Bahia Typica. Creoula de Taboleiro” 74
4. 1.4Postcard, “Bahia Typica. Creoula” 75
5. 1.5Postcard of the workers’ dwellings at the Uzina Brasileiro, Atalaia (Alagoas, Brazil) 89
6. 1.6Luisa Ramos, the first on the left, and other relatives and acquaintances of Ramos in Alagoas (c.1934) 90
7. 1.7A local family in front of an example of a popular dwellings – mocambos 90
8. 1.8Ramos’s family in front of a mocambo taken during a ‘research trip’ and family encounters 91
9. 1.9The ‘other house,’ a local ‘Cultural centre’ in Ramos’s hometown, Pilar 92
10. 1.10Old (1905) and new (1980) buildings of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 106
11. 2.1Cover of the first edition of Los Negros Esclavos (1916) 189
12. 3.1Ramos measuring the head of a black man, circa 1927 [author and date unidentified] 214
13. 3.2Photographs selected to be included in O Negro no Brasil (1934a) 224
14. 3.3Series of photos of the estado de santo (state of saint) involving Maria José, only partially published in O Negro Brasileiro (1934a) 228
15. 3.4Drawing of the terreiro of Honorato, 1934 234
16. 3.5Candomblé objects seized by Bahian State institutions 241
17. 3.6Two women and a shrine seized by Alagoas authorities 243
18. 3.7Photographs of objects associated with the orixá Xangô 251
19. 4.1Extract from Ortiz’s letter showing the emblem of the Sociedad de Estudios Afro-Cubanos, 1937 265
20. 4.2Rómulo Lachatañeré in the early 1950s 295
21. 4.3Emblem of the Congress of Recife (1934), drawing by the Brazilian artist Cícero Dias 318
22. 4.4Emblem of the Congresses of Bahia (1937), drawing by the artist Tomás Santa Rosa 319
23. 6.1Park’s Letter with two Diagrams 428
24. 6.2Park’s Letter with two Diagrams 429
25. 6.3Photo of Pierson and Édison Carneiro (with Donald Pierson) published in 26/10/1936 in the O Estado da Bahia newspaper 437
26. 7.1Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Jardim das Princesas, 1939 498
27. 7.2Cover of first edition of The City of Women , 1947 520
28. 7.3Cover of the first Brazilian edition of A Cidade das Mulheres, 1967 529
29. 8.1Martiniano do Bomfim in 1941 583
30. 8.2Bomfim’s letter, November 11, 1937, p.1 590
31. 8.3Bomfim’s letter, November 11, 1937, p.2 591
32. 8.4Bomfim’s letter, January 8, 1938, p.1 592
33. 8.5Bomfim’s letter, January 8, 1938, p.2 593
34. 8.6Bomfim’s letter, March 26, 1938, p.1 594
35. 8.7Bomfim’s letter, March 26, 1938, p.2 595
36. 8.8Martiniano do Bomfim and children in 1941 600
37. 8.9Anna dos Santos and husband in 1941 605
38. 8.10Manoel, the alabé in an old liteira in 1941 609
39. 9.1Sabina’s procession at São Lázaro hill 619
40. 9.2Sabina’s procession at São Lázaro hill 619
41. 9.3“Back of Édison Carneiro” during Sabina’s procession at São Lázaro hill 621
42. 9.4“RL [Ruth Landes] and Sabina in Bahiana dress – Sept 1938 – in her candomblé roça” 622
43. 9.5Landes’ list of selected photographs 625
44. 9.6Engenho Velho, boy and the steps 637
45. 9.7Views from the ‘Engenho Velho,’ details of the water fountain 639
46. 9.8Views of the Engenho Velho’s interior and details of the chair 641
47. 9.9Men at the door of a god’s house, Engenho Velho 642
48. 9.10Young women at the door of a god’s house, Engenho Velho 643
49. 9.11Boys, Engenho Velho 646
50. 9.12Boys below the Iroko tree, Engenho Velho 647
51. 9.13Girls at the door of a god’s house, Engenho Velho 648
52. 9.14“Zezé, Carmem and Sr. Alvaro, Gantois” 653
53. 9.15Sept. 1938. Ferraments. Chifre Arco Flecha. “Oxossi. House of [?]” 655