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Kongo King Festivals in Brazil: From Kings of Nations to Kings of Kongo

by Marina de Mello e Souza Abstract Popular culture in Brazil owes a great deal to African cultural elements that have been reorganized and reassembled through various and multiple historical processes. One particular festivity that takes place in many regions and has occurred since the beginning of Portuguese colonization consists of the coronation and celebration of […]

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Black Brotherhoods in North America: Afro-Iberian and West-Central African Influences

by Jeroen Dewulf Abstract Building on the acknowledgement that many Africans, predominantly in West-Central Africa, had already adopted certain Portuguese cultural and religious elements before they were shipped to the Americas as slaves, this article argues that syncretic Afro-Iberian elements must also have existed among slave communities outside of the Iberian realm in the American diaspora. […]

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