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Pierre Fatumbi Verger: From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation

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Methodology & History in Anthropology



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Pierre Fatumbi Verger

From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation

Jérôme Souty

440 pages, 30 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-509-2 $150.00/£115.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (June 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-510-8 eBook Not Yet Published


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“Souty’s work is striking in its thoroughness, as the author engages with a wide variety of sources, including books, interviews, newspaper articles, personal letters, and public statements, in a process that echoes Verger’s own approach to handling sources.” • Gabriel Bannagia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

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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).

Jérôme Souty is a French anthropologist and author based in Brazil. A specialist in the work of Pierre Verger, he has conducted research in urban anthropology and Afro-Brazilian religions, cultures and heritage at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He is associated with two research laboratories (IMAF and CRBC) at EHESS Paris. He is also the author of Motel Brazil: A Contemporary Anthropology (Telha, 2019).

Subject: Anthropology (General)Cultural Studies (General)Sociology


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