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Art historian Heather Shirey examines Pierre Verger’s photographs of a Candomblé ceremony that appeared in a 1949 issue of A Cigarra, exploring the relationship between the photographs and anthropological scholarship published by academic contemporaries in Brazil and abroad. Shirey is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at University of St. Thomas.

Lecture: Heather Shirey on Pierre Verger