Secret practices, public threats: Colonial fears and Afro-Brazilian traditions in the 18th century

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10 septembre 2020

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Natacha Klein Käfer, « Secret practices, public threats: Colonial fears and Afro-Brazilian traditions in the 18th century », Centre for Privacy Studies, ID : 10670/1.um8oyi


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Nuno Marques Pereira, a Portuguese priest, wrote about his pilgrimage to Brazil in a book published in 1728. As he was staying in a slave owner’s farm, Pereira was shocked by the sounds of the calundu, an African-Brazilian rite that incorporated dances and prayers. Pereira found it unacceptable that his host would allow the slaves to perform such “idolatrous rites”, especially when one of the conditions to keeping slaves was that they had to be brought to the Catholic faith, “removing from th...

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