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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... satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ansi Z39.48–1992. 1. The preceding quotation from Dona Maria Geralda Ferreira, matriarch Copyright.
... THREE 6 Congados and Reinados, 1888–1990 173 7 Voices of the Congadeiros 207 conclusion xv 241 appendix 251 glossary 259 bibliography 263 index 281 illustrations and maps ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Dona Maria Geralda da Silva Contents.
... Maria Geralda da Silva 3 2. Coronation of a King on the Day of Kings 132 3. Caboclinhos from the rosary festival in Serro 133 4. Feast Day of Our Lady of the Rosary, Patroness of the Blacks 5. Captains of the Mozambique of Our Lady of ...
... Maria Geralda Ferreira, for sharing so many stories, and her son João Lopes, capitão-mor of the festival, for giving me permission to film and interview him over the course of three years. Célia Lourdes Ferreira opened her home to me ...
... Maria Geralda Ferreira, Jatobá Dona Maria said this to me on a sunny, dry day in August 1995 as we sat on her front porch looking out on the yard, where the annual festival for Our Lady of the Rosary was about to begin.1 Dona Maria ...
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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Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy Limited preview - 2005 |
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