Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, BrazilBlacks of the Rosary tells the story of the Afro-Brazilian communities that developed within lay religious brotherhoods dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary in Minas Gerais. It shows how these brotherhoods functioned as a social space in which Africans and their descendants could rebuild a communal identity based on a shared history of an African past and an ongoing devotional practice, thereby giving rise to enduring transnational cultures that have survived to the present day. In exploring this intersection of community, identity, and memory, the book probes the Portuguese and African contributions to the brotherhoods in Part One. Part Two traces the changes and continuities within the organizations from the early eighteenth century to the end of the Brazilian Empire, and the book concludes in Part Three with discussion of the twentieth-century brotherhoods and narratives of the participants in brotherhood festivals in the 1990s. In a larger sense, the book serves as a case study through which readers can examine the strategies that Afro-Brazilians used to create viable communities in order to confront the asymmetry of power inherent in the slave societies of the Americas and their economic and social marginalization in the twentieth century. |
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... Brazil doing fieldwork. I also want to thank the Associação dos Congadeiros de Oliveira and their president and guiding light, Dona Maria Conceição do Bispo Maurício; her daughter Heloisa Helena Maurício; and the entire extended family ...
Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy. There are many friends who have helped me along the way. Deepest thanks go to Mestre Acordeon, my teacher and friend, who first opened my eyes to the rich complexity of ...
Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy. introduction. Esse Congado vem do princípio do mundo ... Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Her brother had been an important and powerful captain of the congado (ritual group) ...
... Brazil in particular, in three distinct ways. First, scholars, for the most part, followed the lead of contemporary commentators who considered the brotherhoods and their festivals to be “slave” organizations, even though through much ...
... Brazil, where this is a category that has both been fluid and slippery. Max Weber defines race as something that “creates a 'group' only when it is subjectively perceived as a common trait: this happens only when a neighborhood or the ...
Contents
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3 Early Formation of the Brotherhoods 16901750 | 67 |
4 The Late Colonial Period 17501822 | 103 |
5 The Brotherhoods in the Brazilian Empire | 139 |
6 Congados and Reinados 18881990 | 173 |
7 Voices of the Congadeiros | 207 |
Conclusion | 241 |
Appendix | 251 |
Glossary | 259 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 281 |
Back Cover | 288 |
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