Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: YURI DE NEGREIROS CORREA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : YURI DE NEGREIROS CORREA
DATE: 07/06/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

inquisition and Witchcraft: magical-religious practices as a form of resistance to slavery in 18th century Portuguese America

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PAGES: 60
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

When thinking about magical practices carried out by enslaved people, it is common to relate them only to cultural and/or religious aspects. They are often presented as something negative, inferior and demonized to the detriment of a specific religious and confessional logic, that of Catholicism. We will then try to show that these magical-religious practices had another possible experience, that of acts of resistance to slavery. This study thus aims to understand the magical-religious practices carried out by enslaved people, which were constantly ideologized by the Catholic Church as "witchcraft", as also being possible examples of resistance, in the same degree of relevance as other methods more widely worked on and established in historiography, such as individual or collective escapes, revolts, abortions, suicides, among others. However, we will show that magical-religious practices adopted a different kind of resistance, that of the everyday. Therefore, we will approach these practices as a means of understanding the

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - GIULLIANO GLORIA DE SOUSA - IFMG
Externa à Instituição - POLLYANNA GOUVEIA MENDONÇA MUNIZ - UFMA
Presidente - 2383316 - YLLAN DE MATTOS OLIVEIRA