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Afro-Brazilian Identity and Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Reginaldo Prandi
Reginaldo Prandi*
Affiliation:
University of São Paulo
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The problem of the construction of memory that faces the Afro-Brazilian population presents itself as more than a simple need for an identity connected to an original past, but in addition as essential, because for historical reasons their social reality has not yet reached the end of its struggle.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 51 , Issue 1: Horizons of Memory , February 2004 , pp. 35 - 43
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2004

References

Notes

1. See Diogenes issues 179, ‘The Routes and Traces of Slaves’ (1997), and 191, ‘Brazil, Five Hundred Years of Racial Integration’ (2000).

2. Umbanda: Afro-Brazilian religion formed in the late 19th century in Rio de Janeiro, from Bantu candomblé and French spiritism created by Allan Kardec, with Catholic syncretisms and some ritual elements from indigenous religions.

3. Vivaldo da Costa Lima et al., Encontro de naõies de candomblé, Salvador, CEO/UFBa and Inamá, 1984.

4. N. A. Fadipe, The Sociology of the Yoruba, Ibadan, Ibadan University Press, 1970.

5. Roger Bastide, Les Religions africaines du Brésil, Paris, PUF, ‘Dito’, 1995.

6. Steven F. White, ‘A reinvenção de um passado sagrado na poesia afro-brasileira contemporãnea’, Estudos Afro-Asiáticos, 35, 1999, pp. 97–110.