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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... de 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 ...
... Rio de Janeiro helped to supplement the brotherhood documents and put them in a larger context. For the chapters on Europe and Africa I relied heavily on published primary sources and the work of scholars of those areas. Those works ...
... Rio de Janeiro. A permanent inquisitorial tribunal was never set up in Brazil. Instead, bishops and other agents employed by the Holy Office in Portugal investigated suspected heretics. Because of an ongoing shortage of both secular and ...
... Rio de Janeiro between 1693 and 1695 by groups of bandeirantes who penetrated the area that would come to be called Minas Gerais, or the General Mines. This long-anticipated discovery sparked a gold rush of enormous proportions and ...
... Rio de Janeiro in the late seventeenth century, the slave trade shifted to that area, which came to be called Minas Gerais. The following hundred years saw a huge influx of African labor, as well as slave labor from the economically ...
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 |
Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy Limited preview - 2007 |
Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy No preview available - 2007 |