Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- One Intimate Encounters
- Two Sexual Effects
- Section I Pleasures and Prohibitions
- Section II Engaged Bodies
- Section III Commemorations
- Twelve Life and Death in Ancient Colonies
- Thirteen Reading Gladiators’ Epitaphs and Rethinking Violence and Masculinity in The Roman Empire
- Fourteen Monuments and Sexual Politics in New England Indian Country
- Fifteen Gender Relations in A Maroon Community, Palmares, Brazil
- Section IV Showing and Telling
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Fifteen - Gender Relations in A Maroon Community, Palmares, Brazil
from Section III - Commemorations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- One Intimate Encounters
- Two Sexual Effects
- Section I Pleasures and Prohibitions
- Section II Engaged Bodies
- Section III Commemorations
- Twelve Life and Death in Ancient Colonies
- Thirteen Reading Gladiators’ Epitaphs and Rethinking Violence and Masculinity in The Roman Empire
- Fourteen Monuments and Sexual Politics in New England Indian Country
- Fifteen Gender Relations in A Maroon Community, Palmares, Brazil
- Section IV Showing and Telling
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Archaeology has long studied materiality for new insight into the cultural aspects of colonial settings. Narratives about empire include such interpretive models as creolization, ethnogenesis, hybridity, syncretism, and transculturation (Casella and Voss, Chapter 1, this volume). These subjects are also linked to the body and to gender relations. In this chapter, we focus on applying some of these questions to the context of Palmares, a seventeenth-century maroon settlement in South America.
Brazilian Setting
The practice of African and native enslavement between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries is not exclusive to Brazil or Latin America. This phenomenon was the result of the European colonization project, beginning in the fifteenth century, which imposed diaspora communities and relationships on new territories throughout the globe. The European colonial adventure in the Americas (S. Hall 2006: 395) shaped common experiences among various ethnic groups representing multiple identities, including experiences of conflict, violence, negotiation, and peace. Among various aspects of the fight against slavery in Brazil, we address the concepts of maroon, cimarón (cimaroon), and quilombos.
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- The Archaeology of ColonialismIntimate Encounters and Sexual Effects, pp. 252 - 268Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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