Blacks of the Rosary Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Name: Blacks of the Rosary Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil
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ISBN: 9780271026947

ISBN-10: 0271026944

ISBN-13: 9780271026947

Edition: 2005

Authors: Elizabeth W. Kiddy

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Black 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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



List of Illustrations and Maps


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction






European Origins of the Rosary Devotion of the Blacks



Africans in the Brotherhoods






Early Formation of the Brotherhoods, 1690-1750



The Late Colonial Period, 1750-1822



The Brotherhoods in the Brazilian Empire






Congados and Reinados, 1888-1990



Voices of the Congadeiros


Conclusion


Appendix


Glossary


Bibliography


Index