Deeply Rooted in the Present: Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos

Mary Lorena Kenny

University of Toronto Press, Jan 1, 2018 - Blacks - 167 pages

Deeply Rooted in the Present is a brief and engaging ethnography that illustrates the ways in which memories, knowledge, and experience are transformed into cultural heritage. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and historical research, the book uses a Brazilian quilombola community (descendants of enslaved Africans) as a case study. In exploring what it means to be a Quilombola in the twenty-first century, it demonstrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being made and remade according to the social, cultural, and political needs of the present. The book encourages readers to make connections between this particular Brazilian quilombola community of traditional pottery makers and their own heritage.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Slavery Quilombos and Land: 19
• From Enslavement to Quilombolas: 45
• Quilombola Identity: 73
• Conclusion: 93
• Further Reading: 105
• Supplementary Exercises: 125
• References: 131
• Index: 161

About the author

Mary Lorena Kenny is Professor of Anthropology at Eastern Connecticut State University. She is the author of Hidden Heads of Households: Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil (2007).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Deeply Rooted in the Present: Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Teaching culture
• Author: Mary Lorena Kenny
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2018
• ISBN: 144263474X, 9781442634749
• Length: 167 pages