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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... Early Formation of the Brotherhoods, 1690–1750 67 4 The Late Colonial Period, 1750–1822 103 5 The Brotherhoods in the Brazilian Empire 139 PART THREE 6 Congados and Reinados, 1888–1990 173 7 Voices of the Congadeiros 207 conclusion xv ...
... earliest historians to talk about history and memory, Pierre Nora, poetically identified memory as lived history, as “life, borne by living societies founded in its name . . . a perpetually actual phenomena, a bond tying us to the ...
... early modern Europe in order to demonstrate the complexity of Catholicism and the importance of lay activity at the time of the explorations of Africa and the Americas. The mentalities of that period served as a cultural backdrop for ...
... early colonial period. By the nineteenth century it was apparent that the Afro-Brazilian festivals to Our Lady of the Rosary had become customary and accepted celebrations among many sectors of society in Minas Gerais. This relative ...
... early modern Europeans but also with Africans who were exposed to Christianity. In Europe, rosary prayer beads and the brotherhood tradition came together when Jacob Sprenger, an infamous witch hunter and coauthor of the famous work on ...
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 |