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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... included elements of European culture and Catholicism, and eighteenth-century Iberian folk practices in the social milieu of a slave society in the interior of Brazil. In Chapter I, I investigate the roots of the devotion and the nature ...
... included meditations on the life of Christ, to give shape and meaning to the repeated prayers. For many years, scholars ascribed the combination of. 13. Winston-Allen, Stories of the Rose, 89–99; on Mary as the second Eve, see Warner ...
... included special ways to communicate across the material boundaries and to an unseen space where ultimate fates and destinies would be determined. As Banker points out in his discussion of lay religious brotherhoods in medieval Italy ...
... included “feasting and drinking, farces and plays, and secular dirty and lewd songs.”49 By the midsixteenth century, local authorities in several towns were so alarmed by the festivities that they passed ordinances prohibiting all-night ...
... included among his miracle stories the tale of a woman who had been taken captive by the Moors in Granada and managed to gain her freedom through her devotion.68 The Portuguese and the Africans could easily have applied this tale to the ...
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 |