Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction: The Atlantic, between Scylla and Charybdis

      • Nancy Priscilla Naro, Roger Sansi-Roca, David H. Treece

      Pages 1-15

3. Colonial Formations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. The Fetish in the Lusophone Atlantic

      • Roger Sansi-Roca

      Pages 19-39

   3. Kriol without Creoles: Rethinking Guinea’s Afro-Atlantic Connections (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries)

      • Philip J. Havik

      Pages 41-73

   4. Historical Roots of Homosexuality in the Lusophone Atlantic

      • Luiz Mott

      Pages 75-95

4. Migrations and Colonial Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Atlantic Microhistories: Mobility, Personal Ties, and Slaving in the Black Atlantic World (Angola and Brazil)

      • Roquinaldo Ferreira

      Pages 99-128

   3. Colonial Aspirations: Connecting Three Points of the Portuguese Black Atlantic

      • Nancy Priscilla Naro

      Pages 129-146

   4. Agudás from Benin: “Brazilian” Identity as a Bridge to Citizenship

      • Milton Guran

      Pages 147-158

   5. Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde

      • Kesha D. Fikes

      Pages 159-173

   6. African and Brazilian Altars in Lisbon—Some Considerations on the Reconfigurations of the Portuguese Religious Field

      • Clara Saraiva

      Pages 175-196

5. Hybridity, Multiculturalism, and Racial Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. History and Memory in Capoeira Lyrics from Bahia, Brazil

      • Matthias Röhrig Assunção

      Pages 199-217

   3. The “Orisha Religion” between Syncretism and Re-Africanization

      • Stefania Capone

      Pages 219-232

   4. Undoing Brazil: Hybridity versus Multiculturalism

      • Peter Fry

      Pages 233-249

6. Back Matter

   Pages 251-256

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This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how it has been shaped by diverse colonial cultures including the Portuguese imperial project. The Lusophone context offers a unique perspective on the history of the Atlantic.

• Africa
• Brazil
• history
• identity
• migration

"This book is a remarkable achievement. On one hand, it critically transcends the risk of parochial colonial nostalgia implicit in 'Lusophone,' as much as it overcomes the implicit Anglophone bias of 'the Black Atlantic.'On the other, the historical and anthropological processes of colonial and diasporic formations are richly analyzed as encounters, as confrontations, and as settings for cultural creation." - Miguel Vale de Almeida, Professor of Social Anthropology, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Lisbon

• King’s College, London, UK

  Nancy Priscilla Naro

• Centre for the Study of Brazilian Culture and Society, King’s College, London, UK

  Nancy Priscilla Naro, Roger Sansi-Roca, David H. Treece

• Department of Anthropology, Goldsmith’s College, UK

  Roger Sansi-Roca

• Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King’s College, London, UK

  David H. Treece

NANCY PRISCILLA NARO is Reader in Brazilian History, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College London, UK.

ROGER SANSI ROCA is Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmith's College, University of London, UK.

DAVID H. TREECE is Director of the Centre for the Study of Brazilian Culture and Society, and Camões Professor of Brazilian Studies, King's College London, UK.

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