Pierre Verger
FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER, ANTHROPOLOGIST, WRITER AND PROFESSOR (1902-1996)
Pierre Fatumbi Verger; Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Mensageiro Entre Dois Mundos; Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger; User:Timathom/Pierre Verger
Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, alias Fatumbi or Fátúmbí (4 November 1902, in Paris – 11 February 1996, in Salvador, Brazil) was a photographer, self-taught ethnographer, and babalawo (Yoruba priest of Ifà) who devoted most of his life to the study of the African diaspora — the slave trade, the African-based religions of the new world, and the resulting cultural and economical flows from and to Africa.Carole Cusack, Alex Norman Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production 2012- Page 480 "...