Gisèle Cossard

French resistance fighter, anthropologist and religious leader

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Giselle Cossard Binon
Giselle Cossard Binon Omindarewa
Born	Giselle Cossard 31 May 1923 Tangier, Morocco
Died	21 January 2016 (2016-01-22) (aged 92) Rio de Janeiro
Nationality	French Brazilian
Occupation(s)	Iyalorixá (religious leader), Writer, Anthropologist, Adida Cultural
Years active	1923 – 2016
Spouse	Jean Binon

Giselle Cossard Binon Omindarewa, (31 May 1923, Tangier - 21 January 2016, Duke of Caxias), Mãe-de-santo of Candomblé of Rio de Janeiro, was a French Brazilian anthropologist and writer. She was also known as Mother Giselle of Yemoja, Daughter of Saint John of Goméia, Initiated for the Orisha Yemoja.

Childhood

Gisele Cossard was born in 1923 in Tangier, Morocco, where her father was a military man. Her family raised her in the Catholic faith. Her father was a primary teacher and her mother, a pianist at the Paris Conservatory. During World War I (1914–1918), her father been sent to that extreme tip of Africa, which at the time was a French protectorate, became fascinated by the country and remained there until 1925. When he returned to France with his wife and the daughter, Gisele mentioned she did not have memories of that period, but according to the researcher Michel Déon, author of the biography Omindarewá - Uma Francesa no Candomblé (Editor Pallas), the collection of art objects that her parents brought from that African country, as well as its fantastic stories, constituted for her "an endless source of wonderment."^[1]

During World War II and postwar

Becoming "Brazilian"

Books written by her

Contribution to the Study of Candomblés of Brazil. The Rite Angola. (3rd cycle), 1970
The Daughter of Saint, In: Carlos Eugênio Marcondes de Moura (org.). Olóòrisà: Writings on the Religion of the Orixás. São Paulo, Ágora, 1981
Anthropologist Says, In: Hubert Fichte. Ethnopoetry: Poetic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Religions: 39–91. São Paulo, Brasiliense, 1987.
AWÔ, The Mystery of the Orixás. Ed. Pallas, 2007.

Bibliography

Omindarewa - A Frenchwoman at Candomblé - in search of another truth. Michel Dion. Ed. Pallas, 2002^[2]
Mother of Saint to French. Bruno Ribeiro - Brazilian Magazine

Filmography

A cidade das mulheres/ The city of women, documentary - directed by Lázaro Faria, Brazil, 2005.
Gisele Omindarewa, directed by Clarice Ehlers Peixoto, Brazil, 2009.

References

^ http://www.revistabrasileiros.com.br/edicoes/16/textos/372/ Archived 2010-01-02 at the Wayback Machine Magazine 'Brazilians' - Mother of Saint to the French.
^ Mémoires de candomblé - Omindarewa Iyalorisa (in French). ISBN 2738464807.