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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... brother and captain of the Mozambique in Jatobá, José Expedito da Luz Ferreira, helped me immensely with insights into the devotion and faith of the congadeiros, and their sister Lia and brother-in-law José dos Anjos offered wonderful ...
... brother had been an important and powerful captain of the congado (ritual group) known as the Mozambique; she was the widow of the man who had been the leader, or capitão-mor, of the festival for more than forty years, and she was the ...
... Brothers and Sisters: Membership in the Black Lay Brotherhoods of 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 ...
... brothers and sisters were not a private place of a personal relationship with God, but rather public spaces in which communities worked out their relationship to one another and to the divine. In addition, the associations were not ...
... brothers and sisters of the brotherhood in Lisbon were not obliged to pay any entrance fee; their sole obligation was to pray the rosary every day.67 Even people who had already died could become members of the rosary brotherhood if ...
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 |