Palherino sits right above the main docks where ships brought Africans into the country for slavery. The area was given the name Palherino because it was the place where African people were punished. When you walk into Palherino you are greeted by four large Catholic churches that rope off a section of Palherino where a main stage is usually built for free concerts. During the festivities, barbeque pits with seasoned chicken grilling are set up everywhere. And families sell fruit, foods, drinks and beer, all the while dancing to Rhumba or Merengue. Walking through Palherino you will see women of all sizes, shades and colors dressed in big, elaborate head wraps with full white skirts or dresses. This is the traditional Brazilian dress for black women, most of whom earn their living by assisting tourists to restaurants or around Palherino.
Schwarcz,Lilia Moritz (Author) and Gomes,Nilma Lino (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Belo Horizonte: Autêntica
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
191 p, Contents:
Presentation - Introduction: History and Anthropology: clashes in the border region / Lilia K. Moritz Schwarcz - Jacques Le Golf: a new border between anthropology and history / Ailton Jose Agostini - The use of hermeneutic anthropology by Robert Darnton / Alessandra El Far - Anthropology and history in the consumer market / Ciméa Barbato Bevilaqua - the anthropological concept of structure and its openness to the historical event / Claude G. Papavero - the temporality "Kalunga" in the historic space of quilombo / Cleyde R. Amorim - Romero: myth and history in Brazilian social thought / Maria Jose Campos - Gilberto Freyre and the new story: a possible approach / Nilma Lino Gomes - Being "pasante" in São Paulo: ritual practice among Bolivian immigrants / Sidney Antonio da Silva.
