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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... Livro do Rosayro de Nossa Senhora (The book of the Rosary of Our Lady) in which he acknowledged the three different names for the devotion, the principal being Rosayro; the second, Coroa (Crown/Chaplet); and the third, Psalteyro ...
... ,” 634. 31. Ibid., 630; and Winston-Allen, Stories of the Rose, 111. 32. Cited in Winston-Allen, Stories of the Rose, 27–28. 33. Dias, Livro do Rosário, 205–88. 34. Winston-Allen, Stories of 22 blacks of the rosary: part one.
... Livro do Rosário, 205–88. 34. Winston-Allen, Stories of the Rose, 5 and 122, quote at 5. 35. Ibid., 116. 36. Dias, Livro do Rosário, 289–383. 37. Although scholars have long thought that the original German rosaries were translations of ...
... in Anthony Pagden, European Encounters with the New World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), 4–5. 66. Dias, Livro do Rosário, 45. 67. The brotherhoods in european origins of the rosary devotion of the blacks 29.
... Livro do Rosário, 45. 67. The brotherhoods in Brazil, and those in eighteenth-century Portugal, did require entrance and annual fees of their members. 68. Dias, Livro do Rosário, 349–52. 69. Linda M. Heywood, “The Angolan-Afro-Brazilian ...
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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