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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... important role in the festival in Jatobá, a region on the industrial periphery of Belo Horizonte, the capital of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Her brother had been an important and powerful captain of the congado (ritual group) ...
... 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 the Portuguese and as a foil for the Africans who came into contact with it. I ...
... important organizations and the people who participate in them. This study as a whole, then, explores the history of the rich and complex religious and social traditions alive in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Minas Gerais. Within ...
... important of these being the popular nature of Marian devotion, the use of prayer beads, and the development and spread of lay religious brotherhoods. These factors came together in the mid-fifteenth century, just as the unprecedented ...
... important elements in common. First, they can all be traced to pre- or extra-Christian practices and beliefs. Second, even when initially started by the church, they took on a life of their own when embraced by the lay population ...
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 |