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Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... Chapter 2, “Before He Died, I Killed Zumbi,” extends the historical narrative from the previous chapter by way of the petitions that colonial soldiers made to the Crown to secure mercês, a variety of rewards and privileges that could come from military service. Of special interest are the claims...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... Chapter 10, “Killing Zumbi (Again),” brings the narrative fully into the nineteenth century and describes how influential white authors wrote about African words, including multiple definitions of Zumbi (and zumbi) in a way that helped preserve a wide range of meanings while also attempting...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
...Deaths and Rebirths Chapter 10, “Killing Zumbi (Again),” brings the narrative fully into the nineteenth century and describes how influential white authors wrote about African words, including multiple definitions of Zumbi (and zumbi) in a way that helped preserve a wide range of meanings...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-012
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... much of the intellectual production about Palmares during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries flowed through Rio de Janeiro, a site of multiple representations of Zumbi. The chapter returns to Rio Grande do Norte, where a descendant of Manoel Lopes identifies as an heir to the man who...
Book Chapter

By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
...Spirits Chapter 3, “Whose Confusion?,” considers the spiritual worlds of Palmares. The chapter begins with a discussion of previous treatments of the titles “Zumbi” and “Zambi,” which have generated a lot of confusion over time, and which contemporary Europeans translated as “Devil” and “God...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... slavery Chapter 2, “Before He Died, I Killed Zumbi,” extends the historical narrative from the previous chapter by way of the petitions that colonial soldiers made to the Crown to secure mercês, a variety of rewards and privileges that could come from military service. Of special interest...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... Chapter 3, “Whose Confusion?,” considers the spiritual worlds of Palmares. The chapter begins with a discussion of previous treatments of the titles “Zumbi” and “Zambi,” which have generated a lot of confusion over time, and which contemporary Europeans translated as “Devil” and “God...
Book Chapter

By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
...” was a complex and varied spiritual matrix. Of special interest are Saint Benedict, who in one case from Minas Gerais was correlated in a fascinating way with Zumbi, and goats, which had various sacred meanings and uses in West Central Africa and Brazil, and surprising potential links to Zumbi and Ganga Zumba...
Book Chapter

By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... 1695. In both urban and rural settings, Zumbi place-names, as well as others (e.g., Lunga), suggest a presence that also raises questions about how and when the names came into existence. Though precise answers are often elusive, in many cases it is possible to periodize the toponyms and then advance...
Book Chapter

By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... ways to make sense of Zumbi (and other evocatively named) toponyms. In some cases, they reveal surprising connections to Palmares and in others take the narrative beyond Palmares and into a fuller discussion of different waves of diaspora. environmental history Paraíba Rio Grande do Norte...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
.... In both urban and rural settings, Zumbi place-names, as well as others (e.g., Lunga), suggest a presence that also raises questions about how and when the names came into existence. Though precise answers are often elusive, in many cases it is possible to periodize the toponyms and then advance...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
Book Chapter

By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
Book Chapter

By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
Book Chapter

By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
Book Chapter

By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
Book Chapter

By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-016
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7