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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... Frei Chico, whose insights on the Brazilian church in general and Afro-Brazilian culture helped me to understand the complexity of the Afro-Mineiro traditions. Doralice Mota in Curvelo always opened her generous home to me, Acknowledgments.
... culture and hospitality of Minas Gerais. The help of Lucy Fontes Hargreaves of Tiradentes was fundamental to my work in 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 ...
... culture, who stepped in as a friend when I most needed one, who taught me when to duck and how to stay in the jogo through the long game of graduate school and work, and who always supported my decisions. I want to thank Joseph ...
... cultural meanings of 'ethnic' cultural survival in the Andes have been shaped by native peoples' active and collective engagement with, rather than flight from, the power-infused cultural programs of state elites.”8 Likewise, Africans ...
... cultural materials at hand, who were, in the phrase of historians João José Reis and Eduardo Silva, “between Zumbi and Pai João,” in order to ensure their survival as a community, maintain their devotions and the link to their ancestors ...
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 |