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Book Title: Fetishes And Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art And Culture In Th...
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Fetishes and Monuments : Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century
Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Subject: Caribbean & Latin American, Museum Studies, Black Studies (Global), General, History / General, Sociology of Religion
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.9 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Roger Sansi
Subject Area: Art, Social Science
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Remapping Cultural History Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
