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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... fact, they are inseparable. Through the ongoing and intertwined practices of believing and remembering, the congadeiros maintain a strong and positive sense of community identity and their own. 16. Pierre Nora, “Between Memory and ...
... fact, in the popular saying that opened this chapter, congadeiros maintain that the beads of the rosary are their bullets, giving the rosary not a passive character but the power of a weapon to fight the battles of life.2 The ...
... fact, Gregory the Great did not suggest the Hail Mary for use as a prayer of intercession. Instead, he identified it as appropriate for use in the Mass of the fourth Sunday of Advent.7 Gregory the Great, however, did play a pivotal role ...
... fact, many scholars have placed the question of death at the center of the discussion of brotherhoods by linking their early medieval manifestations to Roman burial societies. According to historian Albert Meyers, religious brotherhoods ...
... fact evolved from the Greek and Roman sodalities cannot be known concretely, yet there can be no doubt that lay religious brotherhoods, from their inception, were intimately concerned with the proper care of the body and the soul after ...
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 |