Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

CTL-E-0442 · Address · site · unspecified

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Center of Afro-Brazilian Candomblé culture and the fieldwork site for the Chicago-school sociology network: Donald Pierson (1935–37), Robert E. Park's 1937 supervisory visit, and the Herskovitses (1941–42).

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-126; source research type(s): Place. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

S_valladares; S_sansone; S_cal

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