Irmandade dos Negros do Rosário: tradição e resistência

Abstract

Members of the Brotherhood of Seridó Garden Rosary Blacks were social subjects able to build the story this while that relate to the past re-signifying their identity through festive ritual and devotion. Studying this group, intentamos research its history, the continuities and conflicts involving its members and certain administrative and ecclesiastical segments, trying to understand through the speeches as they are built the sociability areas of this group. Considering this purpose were used oral sources that evoke the memory of the oldest components of the brotherhood, as well as intellectuals, historians and administrative authorities of the brotherhood and ecclesiastical power. To engage with the issue were used as historiographical contributions: Michel de Certeau Luiz da Cascudo, Verissimo de Melo. They were appreciated as historiographical and anthropological ballast, academic productions Bruno Goulart, Fernanda Pires Rubião and Diego Marinho Gois. At the end of the study we concluded that Brotherhoods is a space of struggle and resistance, where the black man seeks reorganize themselves socially.