Editing Macumba (section)

== Etymology ==
[[File:Macumba instrumento2-1-.jpg|thumb|The ''macumba'', a type of percussion instrument from Africa; this may have been the origin of the Brazilian term ''macumba'']]

There are debates regarding the etymological origins of the term ''Macumba'' and the matter remains unsettled.{{sfn|Hayes|2007|p=286}} Some scholars have argued that ''Macumba'' derives from a [[Bantu language]] term for a type of [[percussion instrument]]. If so, the use of such instruments in the rituals of Bantu speakers brought to Brazil might have resulted in the word becoming associated with Afro-Brazilian religious traditions.{{sfn|Hayes|2007|p=286}} An alternative argument, put forward by Marcos Aurélio Luz and Georges Lapassade, argued that ''macumba'' derived from
the term ''mocamba'', which designated a house of runaway slaves.{{sfn|Hayes|2007|p=286}}