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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... São João del Rei, as was the generosity of the Brotherhood of Our 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 ...
... São João del Rei, MG Arquivo Nacional do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Arquivo Público Mineiro, BH, MG Arquivo Público Mineiro, Junta do Governo Provisório Arquivo Público Mineiro Seção Colonial Arquivo Público Mineiro, Seção Governmental ...
... Colonial Brazil,” Luso-Brazilian Review 17 (1980): 253–79; Julita Scarano, Devoção e escravidão: A irmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos no distrito diamantino no século XVIII (São Paulo: Nacional, 1976); A. 4 introduction.
... (São Paulo: Nacional, 1976); A. J. R. Russell-Wood, “Black and Mulatto Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil: A Study in Collective Behavior,” HAHR 54 (1974): 567–602; Donald Ramos, “Community, Control, and Acculturation: A Case Study of ...
... (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1988), 13. 10. Roberto DaMatta, Carnivals, Rogues, and Heroes: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Dilemma, trans. John Drury (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991), 8–9. On the corporate ...
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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