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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... Religion. 2. Brotherhoods—Brazil—Minas Gerais—History. 3. Minas Gerais (Brazil)—Religious life and customs. 4. Rosary, Our Lady of the—Cult—Brazil—Minas Gerais—History. I. Title. BX1467.M56K53 2005 267'.1828151'08996—dc22 2005005085 ...
... religious and commemorative.13 Although sociologists have worked to understand how groups remember their past, the term memory, both because of and despite its recent popularity, has come under fire in the field of history. Kerwin Lee ...
... 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 the infrastructure set by the dominant sector introduction 11.
... religion and culture, or simply a conscious form of cultural resistance, a study of the brotherhoods of the rosary offers a look into the messier and less-easy-to-categorize strategies of survival that abounded not just in Brazil, but ...
... religious brotherhoods. Rosary brotherhoods in Brazil did not constitute a threat to the social order of Portuguese colonial, and later Brazilian, society, even though they provided places in which black men and women regularly gathered ...
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 |
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