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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... Oliveira 6. João Lopes, capitão-mor of the rosary festival in Jatobá 219 7. The directorate of the festival in Oliveira 223 8. Congadeiros and politics 248 134 215 MAPS 1. Colonial Brazil 35 2. African regions that fed the slave trade ...
... Oliveira, without whom this book would not be possible. In Jatobá I want to thank Dona 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 ...
... Oliveira, Oliveira, MG Arquivo da Cúria Metropolitana, BH , MG Arquivo Eclesiástico da Arquidiocese de Mariana, MG Arquivo da Irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário, São João del Rei, MG Arquivo Nacional do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, RJ ...
... concentrate on two festivals, one in the town of Oliveira in the agricultural region of Minas Gerais southwest of the capital, Belo Horizonte, and the other in Jatobá, located in the industrial periphery of 10 introduction.
... Oliveira. There is no telling how many small parishes have their own collections of rosary brotherhood documents. Because of the variation in storage techniques, some of the documents had been lost to the corrosive elements of nature ...
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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