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Author:

Kiddy, Elizabeth W., 1957-

Title:

Blacks of the rosary : memory and history in Minas Gerais, Brazil / Elizabeth W. Kiddy.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xvi, 287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Blacks--Minas Gerais--Minas Gerais--Religion.
Brotherhoods--Minas Gerais--Minas Gerais--History.
Minas Gerais (Brazil)--Religious life and customs.
Rosary, Our Lady of the--History.--Minas Gerais--Minas Gerais--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-279) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780271026930 (clothbound : alk. paper)
0271026936 (clothbound : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005005085

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)