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The present work, published in 2016, comes from the Ex-Voto do Brasil Project, developed from 2005 to 2011, and sponsored by CNPq. It aimed at researching and analyzing ex-votos at the main Brazilian chapels of miracles, churches and museums in order to study the typology, iconography, iconology, grammar, discourse, social memory and multiple forms that, as testimonies or media, ex-votos carry messages and information from individual and collective issues. In this second revised edition, there are six narratives authored by researchers from Bahia, Goiás and Minas Gerais. They analyze ex-votos from the point of view of art, communication, history and linguistics. All authors are researchers at GREC - Study Group on Cybermuseums. The book is brilliantly presented by Dr. Caroline Perrée and Dr. Clarisse Prêtre (French researchers), and from Brazil, by Dr. Ednaldo Soares (researcher and writer), Dr. Karina Janz Woitowicz (researcher and journalist), and Dr. Maria Helena Ochi Matue Flexor (historian). Finally, it is also presented by Dr. Elin Luque Agraz (Mexican historian), who honorably shared with us her research and ideas about the innate wealth of ex votos, but passed away in 2018. |
