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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... became part of this study. The comments and encouragement of Africanists Linda Heywood, John Thornton, and Joseph Miller have been instrumental in helping me to understand the brotherhoods and their festivals as part of the Atlantic ...
... became active avenues of communication with the spirit world and the world of the dead, which resonated not only with early modern Europeans but also with Africans who were exposed to Christianity. In Europe, rosary prayer beads and the ...
... became the first to link “Gabriel's Ave,” “Hail, thou that are highly favored, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women” (Luke 1:28), with Elisabeth's greeting to Mary, “Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit ...
... became popular repetitive prayers that were prayed together. The supplicants kept track of the prayers by moving from one bead to the next on chains of early Christian prayer beads. Anecdotes of individuals praying chains of Ave Marias ...
... became roses through “the identification of the rose with Christ and Christ with the Word.”15 Late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century prayer books tell countless stories of the transformations of the words of the Ave Maria into ...
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 |