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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... Central Africa During the Era of the Slave Trade, c. 1490s–1850s,” in Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora, ed. Linda M. Heywood (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 43. See also Joseph C ...
... Soul of Latin America: The Cultural and Political Tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 50–75. 11. Miller, “Central Africa,” 22. 12. Max Weber, “Ethnic Groups,” in New Tribalisms: The Resurgence 6 introduction.
... Central Africa during the first centuries of the slave trade, discuss local worldviews and practices from those areas, and explore the emergence of dynamic creole cultures. In the late seventeenth century, gold was discovered in Brazil ...
... central location but instead are spread across an array of various archives. The State Archive in Belo Horizonte (Arquivo Público Mineiro) had some of the brotherhood books, especially for the period of the Empire to the present, and ...
... central to the devotion of blacks throughout the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil; in fact, in the popular saying that opened this chapter, congadeiros maintain that the beads of the rosary are their bullets, giving the rosary not a ...
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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