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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... interview him over the course of three years. Célia Lourdes Ferreira opened her home to me during the fieldwork and always made me feel welcome. Her brother and captain of the Mozambique in Jatobá, José Expedito da Luz Ferreira, helped ...
... matriarch of the festival in Jatobá, is from an interview with the author, Itaipu, bh, mg, 17 August 1995. All translations mine unless otherwise noted. 2. Célia Lourdes Ferreira, secretary of the Federation of Congadeiros Introduction.
... interview with the author, Tirol, bh, mg, 25 December 1996. 3. Reinado refers not only to the time in the festival that the coronations occur but also to the kings, the queens, and their retinues. There is some discussion among ...
... (interview, 25 December 1996); also printed in Leda Maria Martins, Afrografias da memória: O reinado do rosário no Jatobá (Săo Paulo: Editora Perspectiva, 1997), 48. 3. Many of the congadeiros reviewed the fifteen mysteries with 16 ...
... interview, 21 May 1997; José Expedito da Luz Ferreira, captain of the Mozambique of Jatobá, interview with the author, Tirol, bh, mg, 21 August 1995. 4. Winston-Allen, Stories of the Rose, 28–30. 5. For works on the development of ...
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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