6Introduction: The Atlantic, between Scylla and Charybdis; N.P.Naro, R.S.Roca & D.H.Treece PART I: COLONIAL FORMATIONS The Fetish in the Lusophone Atlantic; R.S.Roca Kriol without Creoles: Afro-Atlantic Connections in the Guinea Bissau Region, 16th to 20th Centuries; P.J.Havik Historical Roots of Homosexuality in the Lusophone Atlantic; L.Mott PART II: MIGRATIONS AND COLONIAL CULTURES Atlantic Microhistories: Mobility, Personal Ties, and Slaving in the Black Atlantic World (Angola and Brazil); R.Ferreira Colonial Aspirations: Connecting Three Points of the Lusophone Black Atlantic; N.P.Naro Agudas from Benin: The "Brazilian" Identity as a Bridge to Citizenship; M.Guran Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde; K.Fikes African and Brazilian Altars in Lisbon: Some Considerations on the Reconfigurations of the Portuguese Religious Field; C.Saraiva PART III: HYBRIDITY, MULTICULTURALISM, AND RACIAL POLITICS History and Memory in Capoeira Lyrics from Bahia, Brazil; M.Rohrig Assunção The "Orisha Religion" between Syncretism and Reafricanization; S.Capone Undoing Brazil: Hybridity Versus Multiculturalism; P.Fry