Marc A Hertzman

After Palmares

Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Marc A. Hertzman tells the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of history’s largest and longest-lasting maroon societies which existed during the seventeenth century in what would become northeast Brazil.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2024
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478026310
• ISBN-10: 1478026316
• Artikelnr.: 69639065

Autorenporträt

Marc A. Hertzman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
A Note on Language  xvii
Chronology  xxiii
Introduction. Layered Diasporas  1
I. War and Conquest
1. March 21, 1645  23
2. Before He Died, I Killed Zumbi  54
II. Spirits
3. Whose Confusion?  83
4. Flying Home?  107
III. People
5. Pedro, Paula, and the Refugees  129
6. The Powerful and the Almost Powerful  151
7. The “Indians of Palmares”  168
IV. Places
8. Greater Palmares  191
9. Farther North  214
V. Deaths and Rebirths
10. Killing Zumbi (Again)  239
11. Connected and Beyond  261
Conclusion. Tapera dos Palmares  280
Appendix A. A Latin Americanist Introduction to Africanist Comparative
Historical Linguistics  299
Appendix B. Supplemental List of Sources  307
Notes  313
Bibliography  379
Index  435