Tomorrow is a hold day: Atlantic circularities and the Brazilian community on the Costa da Mina

• Grant number: 12/50432-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: March 01, 2013
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Marina de Mello e Souza
• Grantee: Marina de Mello e Souza
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Composed mostly by freed Africans and their descendants, the resumed, that called themselves Brazilians, begun to come downtown. The Wester African Coast starting in 1835. They came mainly from Salvador and sub-ex-captives significantly transformed the human composition of coast societies where they established themselves. As a separate community, but in permanent dialogue with the contexts where these individualist where settled, this second generation of resumed was responsible for selecting and giving a new meaning to the different signs of their group. The homage cycle of festivities addressed to "Senhor do Bonfim" is presented in this dissertation as one of the occasions where such pertaining to a Brazilian community is publicly active. Having the festival dedicated to "Senhor do Bonfim", the "folguedo da burrinha" (religious party) and the songs tuned in celebration days as thematic axis which permeates this study, I have tried to constitution of the Brazilian identity in Africa as an elaborated process starting from the contact provided by the Atlantic Ocean In that sense, I have tried to understand what were the mechanisms of selection and discharge applied to those celebrations that crossed the ocean and, inside the community, acquired new emblems and different meanings, constituting one of the diacritical signs of a Brazilian identity that is above all an Atlantic one. (AU)