Luis Nicolau Parés
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469610924
- eISBN:
- 9781469612638
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469610924.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter explores how a network of religious congregations emerged in nineteenth-century Bahia and examines their social interactions. Until recently, the history of African religious practices ...
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This chapter explores how a network of religious congregations emerged in nineteenth-century Bahia and examines their social interactions. Until recently, the history of African religious practices in nineteenth-century Bahia was a topic little explored outside the work of Nina Rodrigues, Pierre Verger, and João José Reis. Fortunately, the past decade has seen increasing interest in preabolition Candomblé, and at last a more systematic effort to examine the topic is developing. Police records, including correspondence, housed in the Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (Bahian State Public Archive) and the newspapers of the time constitute the principal documentary sources; sources for the first half of the nineteenth century are still scarce, however, while those for the second half are more numerous and consistent.Less
This chapter explores how a network of religious congregations emerged in nineteenth-century Bahia and examines their social interactions. Until recently, the history of African religious practices in nineteenth-century Bahia was a topic little explored outside the work of Nina Rodrigues, Pierre Verger, and João José Reis. Fortunately, the past decade has seen increasing interest in preabolition Candomblé, and at last a more systematic effort to examine the topic is developing. Police records, including correspondence, housed in the Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (Bahian State Public Archive) and the newspapers of the time constitute the principal documentary sources; sources for the first half of the nineteenth century are still scarce, however, while those for the second half are more numerous and consistent.
Beatriz Góis Dantas
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807831779
- eISBN:
- 9781469605487
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807898482_dantas.10
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This book concludes by tackling the ever-recurring problem that is Nago hegemony. In their attempts to come to grips with it, Brazilian black studies scholars have resorted to various factors. Nina ...
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This book concludes by tackling the ever-recurring problem that is Nago hegemony. In their attempts to come to grips with it, Brazilian black studies scholars have resorted to various factors. Nina Rodrigues, who initially explained it through the numerical predominance of the Nagos over the other African peoples introduced in this book, amplified his schema to include diffusion of the language and organization of Nago priesthood as factors of this hegemony. This point of view is much more elaborately proposed by Edison Carneiro. Taking economic, demographic, social, and cultural factors into account, he argues that, as a consequence “of the social status they had attained in Africa,” where Nago gods were “already almost international” deities, and as a result of the high regard in which they were held in Brazil, the Nagos of Bahia became a sort of elite, imposing their religions upon other slaves.Less
This book concludes by tackling the ever-recurring problem that is Nago hegemony. In their attempts to come to grips with it, Brazilian black studies scholars have resorted to various factors. Nina Rodrigues, who initially explained it through the numerical predominance of the Nagos over the other African peoples introduced in this book, amplified his schema to include diffusion of the language and organization of Nago priesthood as factors of this hegemony. This point of view is much more elaborately proposed by Edison Carneiro. Taking economic, demographic, social, and cultural factors into account, he argues that, as a consequence “of the social status they had attained in Africa,” where Nago gods were “already almost international” deities, and as a result of the high regard in which they were held in Brazil, the Nagos of Bahia became a sort of elite, imposing their religions upon other slaves.
