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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... saints, play drums and shakers, sing and dance, and escort their kings and queens. The festivals include the coronations of these kings and queens in the part of the festival known as the Reinado.3 The festivals open up a ritual space ...
... saints, and helped one another on to the other world through rituals of death.6 The formation of communities developed concurrently with the rituals and celebrations and with all activities within. 5. Ibid. 6. For other interpretations ...
... Saints, vol. 4, ed. and rev. Herbert Thurston and Donald Attwater (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1956), 49. As early as the third century, Christian ascetics Paul of Thebes and Saint Anthony were said to have used knotted strings to ...
... Saint Dominic's authorship, claiming a lack of evidence that Saint Dominic ever used prayer beads. They traced the rosary back to Dominic the Carthusian (1384–1460), a fifteenth-century Dominican monk who, in his 1458 work, Liber ...
... Saint Boniface (d. 754) saw the organizations as propagating the Christian faith, practicing mutual aid with charitable works, and extending this aid beyond death by praying for the souls of the deceased.24 Whether or not medieval and ...
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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