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This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans. It is based on major new research on the institution of slavery and the role of Africans and their descendants in Brazil. This book aims to introduce the reader to this latest research, both to elucidate the Brazilian experience and to provide a basis for comparisons with all other American slave systems.
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The practical application of micro-historical approaches in 'Women in Port' helps to re-frame our understanding of women's possibilities in the Atlantic world.
From 1750 until Brazil won its independence in 1822, the Portuguese crown sought to extend imperial control over the colony's immense, sea-like interior and exploit its gold and diamond deposits using enslaved labor. Carrying orders from Lisbon into the Brazilian backlands, elite vassals, soldiers, and scientific experts charged with exploring multiple frontier zones and establishing royal authority conducted themselves in ways that proved difficult for the crown to regulate. The overland expeditions they mounted in turn encountered actors operating beyond the state's purview: seminomadic Native peoples, runaway slaves, itinerant poor, and those deemed criminals, who eluded, defied, and resh...
The discovery of the New World offered European civilisation the chance to generate a process of circulation of its own cultural values – the “spiritual conquest” – that has no comparable precedents. The missionary orders played an important role during this “Westernisation of the world,” not only as key players in the spread of Christian values, but also as mediators between different worlds. Indeed, missionary practices imposed the dominating culture’s values and institutions on the vanquished peoples. At the same time, they also promoted the circulation of new knowledge and the negotiation between different cultures during the age of a global integration of space. This book ...
Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil, updates the research about them, and revises interpretations of the role of gender and reproduction within them. First, about the preponderance of women and children in manumission; second, about the association of black female mobility with intimate inter-racial relations; third, about the racialised and gendered routes to freed status; and fourth, about the legacies of West African female socio-economic behaviours for modalities of family and fr...
This book is the first modern survey of the economic and social history of Brazil from early man to today. A fantastic overview for students and scholars interested in the economic and social landscape of Brazil.
Partindo de inventários de bens contidos em processos do Santo Ofício da Inquisição movidos a cristãos-novos de judeus presos ao longo dos séculos XVII e XVIII, tentámos conhecer aspectos relevantes da cultura material dos grupos intermédios de Portugal e do Brasil colonial. Em causa esteve a utilização de fontes inéditas para o estudo dos bens que integravam os patrimónios, porém, mais do que uma história dos objectos – já por si relevante – a investigação orientou-se para a análise das relações estabelecidas entre as pessoas e os bens quer os essenciais de uso corrente quer os que permitiam evidenciar status. Se o estudo permitiu conhecer os patrimónios e a avalia...
Es para nosotros un gran placer dar a conocer esta obra que agrupa treinta y siete contribuciones académicas de gran prestigio procedente de las diversas universidades con vocación americanista. Este libro es el resultado, en parte del que fuera el I Congreso Internacional de Familias y Redes Sociales convocado por el Seminario Permanente de Familias y Redes Sociales: etnicidad y movilidad en el mundo atlántico que se celebró en la Universidad de Sevilla en noviembre de 2014. Dicho evento reunió a los especialistas más distinguidos en la temática familiar en el entorno iberoamericano que durante tres días compartieron sus experiencias, avances y resultados de investigación en un clima de abierto debate y diálogo científico.
O livro traz uma série de estudos sobre diferentes religiões, suas tradições, questões relacionadas à intolerância religiosa e sobre a resistência cultural religiosa no Brasil. Aborda temas do Catolicismo, do Islamismo, da Umbanda, do Candomblé, do Culto Tradicional de Ifá, Judaísmo e outros.