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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... Day of Kings 132 3. Caboclinhos from the rosary festival in Serro 133 4. Feast Day of Our Lady of the Rosary, Patroness of the Blacks 5. Captains of the Mozambique of Our Lady of Mercies, Oliveira 6. João Lopes, capitão-mor of the ...
... (Feast Day of the Crowning of Our Lady of the Rosary), known in the vernacular as the Congado (Fig. 1). She plays an important role in the festival in Jatobá, a region on the industrial periphery of Belo Horizonte, the capital of the ...
... feast day celebration. Dona Maria and all congadeiros, as participants in the festivals are called, are heirs of the rosary brotherhood tradition, which dates from the first years of colonization in Minas Gerais. Congadeiros are ...
Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy. fig. 1. Dona Maria Geralda da Silva overseeing the Feast Day of the Crowning of Our Lady of the Rosary from her porch, Jatobá, August 1995. introduction 3.
... days. The shrines sometimes housed brotherhoods and became locations of feast day processions and celebrations. Processions often involved both music and dancing, and the all-night vigils included “feasting and drinking, farces and ...
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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