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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... served as a foundation for their existence and endurance as communities. The strategy of these groups exposes the limitations of the resistance/accommodation model, replacing it with the examination of processes of negotiation, change ...
... serves well for the rosary brotherhoods. The antagonism of the groups in Brazil came from the hierarchical social system in which the members of the rosary brotherhoods, both slave and nonwhite free men and women, had the least power ...
... served as a cultural backdrop for the Portuguese and as a foil for the Africans who came into contact with it. I explore the development of brotherhoods and specifically the brotherhoods of the rosary and other lay organizations formed ...
... served as mediums, these seers were chosen by the saints to receive messages for their communities.48 Once the shrines were erected, populations used them for various purposes. Individuals made pilgrimages to certain shrines, often ...
... served by its chaplain paid by them and celebrating their feasts, with a Mass on Saturdays, Sundays and Saints' Days, and devoted clerics often go there to hear Mass.”79 At least two other churches were dedicated to Our Lady of 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 |