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Blacks of the rosary : memory and history in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Title
Blacks of the rosary : memory and history in Minas Gerais, Brazil / Elizabeth W. Kiddy.
Author
Kiddy, Elizabeth W., 1957-
Publication
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Description
xvi, 287 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"Blacks 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Black people > Minas Gerais > Religion
  • Brotherhoods > Minas Gerais > History
  • Rosary, Our Lady of the > History. > Minas Gerais
  • Minas Gerais (Brazil) > Religious life and customs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-279) and index.
Contents
1. European origins of the rosary devotion of the blacks -- 2. Africans in the brotherhoods -- 3. Early formation of the brotherhoods, 1690-1750 -- 4. The late colonial period, 1750-1822 -- 5. The brotherhoods in the Brazilian empire -- 6. Congados and Reinados, 1888-1990 -- 7. Voices of the Congadeiros.
ISBN
0271026936 (clothbound : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005005085
OCLC
  • ocm58546698
  • SCSB-5212910
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries