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Fifteen - Gender Relations in A Maroon Community, Palmares, Brazil

from Section III - Commemorations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Barbara L. Voss
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
Eleanor Conlin Casella
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
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Summary

Introduction

Archaeology has long studied materiality for new insight into the cultural aspects of colonial settings. Narratives about empire include such interpretive models as creolization, ethnogenesis, hybridity, syncretism, and transculturation (Casella and Voss, Chapter 1, this volume). These subjects are also linked to the body and to gender relations. In this chapter, we focus on applying some of these questions to the context of Palmares, a seventeenth-century maroon settlement in South America.

Brazilian Setting

The practice of African and native enslavement between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries is not exclusive to Brazil or Latin America. This phenomenon was the result of the European colonization project, beginning in the fifteenth century, which imposed diaspora communities and relationships on new territories throughout the globe. The European colonial adventure in the Americas (S. Hall 2006: 395) shaped common experiences among various ethnic groups representing multiple identities, including experiences of conflict, violence, negotiation, and peace. Among various aspects of the fight against slavery in Brazil, we address the concepts of maroon, cimarón (cimaroon), and quilombos.

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The Archaeology of Colonialism
Intimate Encounters and Sexual Effects
, pp. 252 - 268
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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