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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... Lady of the—Cult—Brazil—Minas Gerais—History. I. Title. BX1467.M56K53 2005 267'.1828151'08996—dc22 2005005085 Copyright © 2005 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by ...
... Lady of the Rosary, Patroness of the Blacks 5. Captains of the Mozambique of Our Lady of Mercies, Oliveira 6. João Lopes, capitão-mor of the rosary festival in Jatobá 219 7. The directorate of the festival in Oliveira 223 8. Congadeiros ...
... Lady of Mercies. I spent many happy hours following you all over the city of Oliveira during the eight days of the festival. Of the family, my special thanks go to Captains Antonio Eustáquio dos Santos and Pedrina de Lourdes Santos and ...
... Lady of the Rosary in São João del Rei and that of its secretary, Nelson Antunes de Carvalho. In Mariana, I want to thank the Ecclesiastic Archive, for allowing me to study its collections, and the hardworking functionaries there who ...
... Lady of the Rosary was about to begin.1 Dona Maria, born 4 July 1906, has spent most of her life as part of the Festa do Reinado de Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Feast Day of the Crowning of Our Lady of the Rosary), known in the vernacular ...
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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