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).
| ISBN: | 9781836955092 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 2026 |
| Author: | Jérôme Souty |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 440 pages |
| Series: | Methodology & History in Anthropology |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Biography: philosophy and social sciences History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities) |
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).
Pierre Fatumbi Verger features in the following genres: Social and cultural anthropology, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities)
Pierre Fatumbi Verger is available in Hardback
Pierre Fatumbi Verger was written by Jérôme Souty and published by Berghahn Books
Pierre Fatumbi Verger has 440 pages
Yes it is part of Methodology & History in Anthropology series
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