Book cover for 'Macumba: The Varieties of Brazilian Magic & Spirituality' by Nicholas de Mattos Frisvold, featuring an illustrated pink central panel surrounded by portraits of people, a bird, a cross, and floral motifs.

Macumba, Brazilian Magic

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Book cover for 'Macumba: The Varieties of Brazilian Magic & Spirituality' by Nicholas de Mattos Frisvold, featuring an illustrated pink central panel surrounded by portraits of people, a bird, a cross, and floral motifs.
  • Book cover for 'Macumba: The Varieties of Brazilian Magic & Spirituality' by Nicholas de Mattos Frisvold, featuring an illustrated pink central panel surrounded by portraits of people, a bird, a cross, and floral motifs.
  • A book cover titled 'A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SORCEROUS HEART OF BRAZIL' with an ornate pink central panel, red curtains at the top and bottom, and purple floral illustrations framing the design.
Macumba, Brazilian Magic

Macumba, Brazilian Magic

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Macumba, Brazilian Magic by Nicholaj De Mattos Frisvold is a journey into one of the most complex and living magical traditions in the world. Drawing together the African, Indigenous, European, and Catholic influences that have shaped Brazilian magic from the fifteenth century to the present, Frisvold offers an immersive and deeply respectful portrait of a tradition where religions collide, spirits dance, and sorcery is very much alive.

Key Features:

  • Historical Scope: Traces Brazilian magic from the fifteenth century to the present day, offering a thorough grounding in how the tradition has evolved over centuries of cultural collision and synthesis.

  • Cultural Breadth: Weaves together African, Indigenous, European, and Catholic influences into a coherent portrait of a tradition that belongs to no single source.

  • Immersive Writing: Poetic and immersive in approach, placing the reader inside the tradition rather than at a scholarly distance from it.

  • Transformative Perspective: Positions Macumba not as an object of study but as a living, transformative force with real implications for how we understand magic and spirit.

  • Format: A 6" x 9" paperback with 320 pages, comprehensive and deeply researched.

Macumba, Brazilian Magic is one of the most serious and rewarding books available on a subject that deserves exactly that treatment.

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