Editing Pierre Verger (section)

{{Short description|French photographer, anthropologist, writer and professor (1902–1996)}}
[[File:Pierrer Verger 1952.jpg|thumb|Auto-portrait of Pierre Verger (1952)]]

'''Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger''', alias '''Fatumbi''' or '''Fátúmbí''' (4 November 1902, in [[Paris]] &ndash; 11 February 1996, in [[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]], Brazil) was a [[photography|photographer]], self-taught [[ethnography|ethnographer]], and ''[[babalawo]]'' ([[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] priest of [[Ifà]]) who devoted most of his life to the study of the [[Africa]]n diaspora &mdash; the [[History of slavery|slave trade]], the African-based religions of the new world, and the resulting cultural and economical flows from and to Africa.<ref>Carole Cusack, Alex Norman Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production  2012- Page 480 "... were the french anthropologists Pierre Verger (1902–1996) and [[Roger Bastide]] (1898–1974), who both turned out to be a kind of 'culture hero' for both Candomblé and the afro-brazilian people."</ref>