Pierre Fatumbi Verger : From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation
by
Jerome Souty
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Methodology & History in Anthropology
ISBN-10
183695509X
ISBN-13
9781836955092
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Imprint
Berghahn Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 15th, 2026
Print length
440 Pages
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With biographical undertones, Pierre Verger: From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation is an anthropological essay that offers a singular and nuanced reflection on the originality and scope of Pierre Verger’s experience as a photographer in search of otherness in the black cultures of Africa and Brazil and the transatlantic world of the Orisha Vodun deities.
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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